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Relationship Quotes
"Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe."
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"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."
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"I didn't know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one."
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"Being in a bad relationship is like trying to dance when you're sad."
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"Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight."
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"We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts."
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"In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?"
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"That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with."
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"To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger."
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"How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?"
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"Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her."
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"People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions."
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"Having to explain to someone how they hurt you, always feels like an ass kicking... again."
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"Don't let your focus be so much on how many times you go on a date but how you can build into one another, share and carry each other's vision, complement each other, develop a deeper level of friendship; grow spiritually together and make the little things meaningful. It's beyond the 100% but more about how committed and dedicated you are daily. Love can only truly exist, when you become selfless and focus less on what is in it for you."
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"People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them."
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"With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office."
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"Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women."
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"Yes. This. It was just what she needed, because here, held by him like this, her guilt, her regret, her fears . . . all of it gave way to this heady, languid sensation of being desired and she didn't want it to stop.Any of it."
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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
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"I might have to rescind my no-love rule," she said, a cookie in each hand. "Cookies are my sweet spot.' He smiled. "They're not your only sweet spot."
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"She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not."
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"Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right."
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"In the sphere of human relations, faith is an indispensable quality of any significant friendship or love. "Having faith" in another person means to be certain of the reliability and unchangeability of his fundamental attitudes, of the core of his personality, of his love. By this I do not mean that a person may not change his opinions, but that his basic motivations remain the same; that, for instance, his respect for life and human dignity is part of himself, not subject to change."
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"I thought you were mad at me.""I am.""Well, I make it a rule never to have sex with anyone who's mad at me."He arched a brow. "It's a wonder you've ever had sex at all."
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"When one person attempts to 'fix it for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding."
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"Why d'you make me suffer?''Because I love you.Now it was his turn to get angry. 'No, no, you don't love me! People in love want happiness, not pain!'People in love want only love, even at the cost of pain.'Then you're making people suffer on purpose.'Yes, to see if you love me.The Baron's philosophy would not go any further. 'Pain is a negative state of the soul. 'Love is all. 'Pain should always be fought against.'Love refuses nothing.'Some things I'll never admit.'Oh yes, you do, now, for you love me and you suffer."
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"Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale."
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"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships."
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"It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love."
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"An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate."
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"The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone."
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"People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else."
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"If you ever want to know how a man truly feels about you, do absolutely nothing. Then you'll have your answer."
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"You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it."
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"The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed."
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"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."
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"The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving."
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"Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins."
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"No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain."
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"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy."
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"We weren't allies, but not being enemies was close enough for me."
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"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist a wonderful living side by side can grow up if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky."
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"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."
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"Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater."
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"I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than joining the bodies."
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"Change the way you treat your partner. Learn to treat your partner as you would yourself. Change the way you pray for your partner. Learn to pray unselfishly. Change the way you talk to your partner. Learn to speak life to him/her daily. Change the way you show love to your partner. Learn to do something different regularly. The more you change, the more your relationship changes for the better not to make you become bitter."
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"The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others."
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"Sex either blows your fucking mind, or it's not good enough."
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"If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn't right for you, they're NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it's right for you, you will know. And when it's not " it's time to go."
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"He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones."
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