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Relationship Quotes
"Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man."
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"I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?"
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"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."
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"Marriage is a necessary evil."
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"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
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"The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value."
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"When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them."
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"Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I'm saying primitive because at this very early stage there is really no difference between primitive man and modern man."
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"As long as they were together, they could face anything. For the first time in a long time, she didn't feel alone-and she knew he didn't either."
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"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."
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"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
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"There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it."
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"Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship, entitlement and expectation will poison it."
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"Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability."
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"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
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"Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke."
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"We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too."
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"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
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"Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust."
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"People will come and go in your life and only few of them will become Immortal in your heart."
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"To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone."
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"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"I realized that marriage is not only about exchanging vows, but it's about two people who equally make a continuous effort to honour their vows."
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"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."
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"They always come back, but we don't always answer."
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"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
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"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
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"The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support."
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"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
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"Kill the women? No, nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by-and-by they fall in love with you and never want to go home any more."
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"You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks.""He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin."Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice.""It's very nice. I highly recommend it."
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"Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage."
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"How do you do it?""Do what?""All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered."Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix," he sighed, "it mattered."
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"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
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"There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect."
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"Friends can become enemies, and enemies can become friends. Ego and pride can turn what is good into bad, and kind words can turn what is bad into something good."
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"I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time."
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"With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion."
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"Look for the person everyone hates, and love them."
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"If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else."
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"I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult."
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"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
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"A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended."
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"And things were back to normal except we were just friends."
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"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self."
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"Yeah, that's exactly how I feel when I'm around you: confused, but still satisfied.' I freeze, trying to figure out how to cancel it out and replace it with something that sounds a whole lot less like sex and a candy bar ad."
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"Deep connection is the antidote to madness."
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