Quotes Tagged "relationships"

Human love is the shadow of the Great love; its child. And of all human loves, it is romantic love which has the most riveting effect upon our soul. Ageless and perennial, it is forever finding an outlet in poetry, music, dance, story-telling, and the media. We never tire of it. It commands attention at so many turns, such is the longing for its presence in our life. It is not by accident that it has such an unfailing pull on our psyche. If we cannot connect with visible human love, we will not be able to find the invisible Love. Human love is leading us, most of us unknowingly, straight to the divinity of our own nature. And that nature leads us, in turn, to the source of life itself.

When we make a mistake in front of them, we need to admit fault and we need to tell them that we try hard, but that sometimes we too need help Tell him you need to ask God for direction on how to live better and how to be a better mom. Then ask your son to pray for you, just as you pray for him. That can be a life-changing moment for many sons, when a mother admits that she's trying with all her might but isn't doing the job that she really wants to be doing and needs help.

Rules have nothing to do with trust.

Sons need mothers who feel at peace, comfortable with themselves, content with their lives, and reasonably rested.

I am nothing more than his safe way to begin. I am Ruben’s starter kit. A short preface that will soon pale when his real story begins. An overture to the symphony he will discover beyond me, after me, without me. I try to feel honored to perform that public service for the gay community at large.

This fake smile cracks as the sun lowers down Rubble coats your mouth like powdered sugar It tastes so sweet AS PAIN OFTEN DOES

Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?

Being a nurse, I’m well trained in being careful with the language that I use. Words have power. They can keep someone calm. Or they can freak someone the fuck out when they’re in a bad place. They can keep someone at a distance. Or they can bring them close. It’s why I resisted when he suggested I call him by his first name. I was keeping him at a distance. But apparently my subconscious has been telling me this whole time that I shouldn’t do that.

Giving yourself permission to fall for someone is hard. Well, terrifying, really,” he amends. “But sometimes we have to let go of how we think things should go and just let them happen. It’s the simplest and most difficult part of giving a relationship a go.

Funny how much things can change in such a short amount of time when you’re being honest about what you want.

I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle.

A woman is against her man making decisions when he is angry, except when the decision is to marry her, or to buy her a gift.

Some underwears seem to have been designed to be a turn-off.

Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.

If I am less kind than I was yesterday, then I am failing as a human being.

Create from the heart to produce something meaningful. Speak from the heart to build solid relationships. Live from the heart to have a beautiful life. Maxime Lagacé

Please don't shut me out. Or if you're going to, just tell me, tell me so that I'm not dangling in this in-between space.

I get it. Things change. Relationships end. But you can tell a lot about a person by the way they leave.

It's more important to be one than it is to be right.

Poverty and wealth are both contagious, it's just a matter of who you spend most of your time with.