Quotes Tagged "relationships"

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

Błogosławiony ten, co nie mając nic do powiedzenia, nie obleka tego faktu w słowa.

...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures.

Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

You have made him live.

More than friends, eh? More than friends... You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationship more sacred than friendship.

Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.

We are aware that blaming and arguing can never help us and only create a wider gap between us; that only understanding, trust, and love can help us change and grow

When restless sexual desire arises, we pay attention to it with enough understanding and enough love that it dissipates and does not grow.

My need to show what I can do is keeping me from finding out what other people can do and what we can do together.

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better

It's probably not easy for a woman to understand what it's like to be a man. Imagine you're starving, and someone puts a huge buffet in front of you. There's delicious, mouth-watering food all around you, and it's really really hard not to eat it all. That's what it's like to be a man around attractive women. The urge to want to hump everything that moves is part of a man's natural programming. It's a deep-seated hunger. To suppress that hunger takes civilization and a lot of willpower.

You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.