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Relationship Quotes
"I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist."
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"You have family, only a brother you clearly don't like to speak about. Fine. That's all right.' She ran her fingers through her hair. 'But don't ever say dreams are a waste. It's a miracle I can still speak of dreams and futures after all I've been through. There's love in this world, Thristan, love that can encompass the heart abiding in humans' mortal, fragile bodies. And there are stupid little humans like me, dreamers, who believe one day they'll find it."
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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
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"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
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"If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours."
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"Control and manipulation are not love, the outcome is a life of imprisonment ultimately leading to deep-rooted feelings of resentment."
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"The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love."
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"Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust."
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"When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced."
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"There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall."
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"His boat sank. They were all on his side."
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"Eventually I'll stop writing about you and it'll be bittersweet. Not because I'm not in love with you, but because I'll just love you."
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"I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship-might end up alone! I'd always been terrified of this. But I'd rather not ever be in a couple, or ever get laid again, than be in a toxic relationship. I spent a few years celibate. It was lovely, and it was sometimes lonely. I had surrendered; I'd run out of bullets. I learned to be the person I wished I'd meet, at which point I found a kind, artistic, handsome man. When we get out of bed, we hold our lower backs, like Walter Brennan, and we laugh, and bring each other the Advil."
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"The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being."
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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."
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"We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are."
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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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"A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other."
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"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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"If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING."
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"If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain."
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"It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep."
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"I'm only up when you're not downDon't wanna fly if you're still on the ground."
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"Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them."
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"Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt."
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"The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets."
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"I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again."
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"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
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"Not every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime."
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"Love could be instant and unconditional but trust develops through time. You may not trust wholeheartedly while loving someone unconditionally."
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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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"Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most."
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"Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I've lasted five years now. What's five more?"
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"There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it."
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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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"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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"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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"If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out."
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"If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern."
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"Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job."
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"A husband without faults is a dangerous observer."
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"This time, I wanted to enjoy the passion that burned between us until we were both about to combust."
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"Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?"
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"Forgiveness is a form of LOVE. The ability to forgive is not achieved with soaring thoughts or intentions alone. It comes about by engaging several tools over a matter of weeks that release your body, mind, and soul, from the trapped wounding energy that has caused you to feel so much pain and then be able to replace it with new healing energy instead."
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"Never put off repairing a relationship you value. If sorry needs to be said say it now. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed to any of us."
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"What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?"
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"Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the only Gethenian I distrusted. For he was the only one who had entirely accepted me as a human being: who had liked me personally and given met entire personal loyalty: and who therefore had demanded of me an equal degree of recognition, of acceptance. I had not been willing to give it. I had been afraid to give it. I had not wanted to give my trust, my friendship to a man who was a woman, a woman who was a man."
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"We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box."
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"His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room."
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