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The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60's and 70's improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive relationships are a massive advertisement to non- consequentiality of abuse.So, if you stay in a abusive relationship you are signaling to everyone who ever comes in contact with you or hears about you that abusers face no consequences to their abuse therefore by staying in an abusive relationship you are encouraging and subsidizing abuse.By getting out of abusive relationships you are saying the whole world over that abusers can't get away with it. That there are negative consequences to child, adult, or spousal abuse. You name it. It just doesn't have consequences for you, it has consequences for other people.When you break out and reject abusive and irredeemable relationships you are sending a clear signal which all abusers are listening for at all times. "Can I get away with it?" That's all they're thinking. It is my hope that abusers hear this and say "Oh shit. The game is up.
— Stefan Molyneux
Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to risk. But there is also that radical feeling of our poverty when faced with human misery. I am afraid to give myself. I have constructed a world of security around me...so many so-called interests which keep me from communing with others...I want to, but cannot. So many things seem to prevent me from loving and I feel them in my inmost being...so many defences and fears. I risk losing hope. I risk entering into a world of sadness and I begin to doubt myself. I have doubts about others. I doubt the value of my presence. I doubt everything.This is our human condition. We want so much but we feel incapable. We believe in love but where is it? There are so many obstacles to break through within ourselves in order to become free and to become present to others; to their misery and to their person.Our hope is to become freer each day in order to accept others, to be fully present to them. That is our hope. It is only in that way we will be able to give life. Come, Holy Spirit, give us hearts of peace and warmth which can serve as a refuge for those who suffer. Come, help us to be present one to another.
— Jean Vanier, Eruption to Hope
When i dated someone, my goal is to marry her, i date to get married one day, i don't date a girl just to have sex and leave her, why wasting your time if the goal is not to get married?
— Werley Nortreus
Oh hell no. Guys don’t talk about that crap.”“You’re serious.”“Really.”“What do you talk about?”Shane looked at her as if she were insane. “You know. Stuff. We’re not girls. We don’t talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.”Claire rolled her eyes and said, “Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don’t care.
— Rachel Caine, Kiss of Death
You're sad? I'll cheer you up. You're upset? I'd love to listen. All you have to do is come to me, you know I'll be there for you.
— Werley Nortreus
It’s not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...” I imply with a shrug “...well then you know what they say.”“Nothing hap―”“Quack!
— K. Bromberg
Romantic relationship is meant to be romantic, which means loving. If it is not any more you may ask yourself why you are still together.
— Raphael Zernoff, I Am
Don't turn a good dude who is loyal to his chick into a bad nigga by throwing yourself at him when he is already committed. Know when to stay the hell away.Good men are rare. If he aint single, don't make him unfaithful. Oh Yes, he might cheat with some other chick. It does not have to be you.
— Crystal Evans, Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.
— Alan de Jager
Stop searching for that perfect person you hope for. Stop searching for someone who would meet the standards you set as spouse material, instead love the one who's already next to you, who has always been there for you, and never done you wrong. Perfection doesn't exist in anyone, including you.
— John Yang aka Private83
The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You go in when it is cold, and come out when it is too hot.
— Jim Jensen, Threads of Evidence
Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You walk in when it is cold, and comes out when it is too hot.
— Jim Jensen
Once you cry it out, it’s supposed to vanish…right? It’s not true. It’s just…a little less.It was the first chink in my brickwall. The wall was still there. And it was still made of bricks,but one, maybe two, had been torn down
— Tijan, A Whole New Crowd
It is difficult to move on when your surroundings stay the same.
— Katja Michael, She Came at Dawn
Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.
— Chris Burkmenn
Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.
— Steve Maraboli
Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. It either tears people apart... binding them tightly in a common objective.
— Emily Thorne
Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.
— Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did
—  a burning pain that won’t leave me wherever I turn.
I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me
— Randy Kagan
I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.
— Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.
— Steve Maraboli
Too late; my awkwardness had already made an unforgettable appearance, so, of course, I couldn’t be let off the hook.
— Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
I love you so much. Our love is eternal.
— Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love
[Their marriage] will not be all cakes and ale.... They are too much alike to be the ideal match. Patty is thick-skinned and passionate, too ready to be hurt to the heart by the mere little pinpricks and mosquito bites of life; and Paul is proud and crotchety, and, like the great Napoleon, given to kick the fire with his boots when he is put out. There will be many little gusts of temper, little clouds of misunderstanding, disappointments, and bereavements, and sickness of mind and body; but with all this, they will find their lot so blessed, by reason of the mutual love and sympathy tat, through all the vicissitudes, will surely grow deeper and stronger every day they live together, that they will not know how to conceive a better one.
— Ada Cambridge, The Three Miss Kings
It is so beautiful to see a relationship that is nourished and fueled by a love expressed with action.
— Steve Maraboli
Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Waiting for God to give you want He has ALREADY decided for you and waiting for someone to decide on you--is NOT the same.
— Adrianne D. Pless
Aglaya just rolled her eyes. "You're like a ten year-old.""Ten-and-a-half," Kev defended. "But I read at a fourteen year-old level.
— Larry Gent
Look at it this way: We're two people who happen to have a lot in common, a connection most people would kill for, we trust each other, and we have the kind of sex that people base pornos on. The fact that we're both men really doesn't make a difference, does it?
— L.A. Witt, Rules of Engagement
Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.
— Lik Hock Yap
I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.
— johnathon trooper
Geoff’s arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British-Craphole.
— Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire
Why do people stay together? Putting aside ‘for the sake of the children’, and ‘the habit of years’ and ‘economic reasons’ as lawyers’ nonsense – it’s not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don’t leave each other, one discovers a mystery.
— Victoria Hislop, The Story: Love, Loss and the Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories
No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.
— Anna Bayes, It Is Time and Other Stories
Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
I know what it does to you, I know. Maybe that's why we hold on as hard as we do. We just can't believe that such a miracle can happen to us twice. But it can, someday you'll find it again.
— Laura Zigman, Animal Husbandry
Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together. 
— Csaba Gabor-B.
It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Jealous much, Matthews? Is it because I'm a favorite, or is it because you still want me?
— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised
We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it
— Adam Berlin, The Number of Missing
I didn't plan it," she said. "I hoped that we would both just know when it was time... That we'd have one of those moments. Like in the movies, foreign movies, when something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything. Like there's a man and a woman having breakfast... and the man reaches for the jam, and the woman says, "I thought you didn't like jam," and the man says, "I didn't. Once.""Or maybe it isn’t even obvious. Maybe he reaches for the jam, and she just looks at him like she doesn't know him anymore. Like, in the moment he reached for that jar, she couldn't recognize him."After breakfast, he'll go for a walk, and she'll go to their room and pack a slim brown suitcase. She'll stop on the sidewalk and wonder whether she should say good-bye, whether she should leave a note. But she won't. She'll just get into the taxi and go."He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one. Maybe he finds one of her ribbons on the stairs...
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and Ibelieve you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?
— Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love
Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice.
— Elizabeth Brooks
The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting ourmemories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.
— Santonu Kumar Dhar
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.
— Nina Guilbeau
She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is...No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive.
— Chrissy Anderson, The Hope List
To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among her subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.
— Sophie L. Rose
in a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work.
— Anonymous
I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel like you arehere... and a part of you is within me in the form of this child... Love is like the wind... you may not see it... especially in the absence of the other... but you always feel it around...
— Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love
Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
— Jim George
Our capacity to love others is very connected on how we value and love ourselves.
— Maggy San Jose-Baas
Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.
— Jim George
True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among his subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.
— Sophie Rose
Only once in your life, I trulybelieve, you find someone whocan completely turn your worldaround. You tell them things thatyou’ve never shared with anothersoul and they absorb everythingyou say and actually want to hearmore. You share hopes for thefuture, dreams that will nevercome true, goals that were neverachieved and the manydisappointments life has thrownat you. When somethingwonderful happens, you can’twait to tell them about it, knowingthey will share in yourexcitement. They are notembarrassed to cry with youwhen you are hurting or laughwith you when you make a fool ofyourself. Never do they hurt yourfeelings or make you feel like youare not good enough, but ratherthey build you up and show youthe things about yourself thatmake you special and evenbeautiful. There is never anypressure, jealousy or competitionbut only a quiet calmness whenthey are around. You can beyourself and not worry aboutwhat they will think of youbecause they love you for who youare. The things that seeminsignificant to most people suchas a note, song or walk becomeinvaluable treasures kept safe inyour heart to cherish forever.Memories of your childhood comeback and are so clear and vividit’s like being young again.Colours seem brighter and morebrilliant. Laughter seems part ofdaily life where before it wasinfrequent or didn’t exist at all. Aphone call or two during the dayhelps to get you through a longday’s work and always brings asmile to your face. In theirpresence, there’s no need forcontinuous conversation, but youfind you’re quite content in justhaving them nearby. Things thatnever interested you beforebecome fascinating because youknow they are important to thisperson who is so special to you.You think of this person on everyoccasion and in everything youdo. Simple things bring them tomind like a pale blue sky, gentlewind or even a storm cloud on thehorizon. You open your heartknowing that there’s a chance itmay be broken one day and inopening your heart, youexperience a love and joy that younever dreamed possible. You findthat being vulnerable is the onlyway to allow your heart to feeltrue pleasure that’s so real itscares you. You find strength inknowing you have a true friendand possibly a soul mate who willremain loyal to the end. Lifeseems completely different,exciting and worthwhile. Youronly hope and security is inknowing that they are a part ofyour life.
— Delsin 474
Pheromones didn't care about tomorrow. They didn't care about education or employment or age.
— Tracy Brogan, The Best Medicine
He took a moment, as if he were deciding which tack to go with. I think he chose honesty, but it's so hard to tell. And if you chose honesty as a strategy, is it still honesty?
— Kate Morgenroth, Through the Heart
I WALK IN / I SEE YOU / I WATCH YOU / I SCAN YOU / I WAIT FOR YOU / I TICKLE YOU / I TEASE YOU / I SEARCH YOU / I BREATHE YOU / I TALK / I SMILE / I TOUCH YOUR HAIR / YOU ARE THE ONE / YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME / YOU ARE MY OWN / I SHOW YOU / I FEEL YOU / I ASK YOU / I DON’T ASK / I DON’T WAIT / I WON’T ASK YOU / I CAN’T TELL YOU / I LIE / I AM CRYING HARD / THERE WAS BLOOD / NO ONE TOLD ME / NO ONE KNEW / MY MOTHER KNOWS / I FORGET YOUR NAME / I DON’T THINK / I BURY MY HEAD / I BURY YOUR HEAD / I BURY YOU / MY FEVER / MY SKIN / I CANNOT BREATHE / I CANNOT EAT / I CANNOT WALK / I AM LOSING TIME / I AM LOSING TIME / I AM LOSING GROUND / I CANNOT STAND IT / I CRY / I CRY OUT / I BITE / I BITE YOUR LIP / I BREATHE YOUR BREATH / I PULSE / I PRAY / I PRAY ALOUD / I SMELL YOU ON MY SKIN / I SAY THE WORD / I SAY YOUR NAME / I COVER YOU / I SHELTER YOU / I RUN FROM YOU / I SLEEP BESIDE YOU / I SMELL YOU ON MY CLOTHES / I KEEP YOUR CLOTHES
— Jenny Holzer
You do love him," I said, and she swung her gaze back to me."I do." She smoothed her hand over her thighs, flattening imaginary wrinkles from the linen."Even though he's not your family."Saylor laughed, a surprisingly husky sound. "Don't you love people who aren't your family, Harper Jane?""Of course I do. But you love him for more than the whole Oracle thing. You love him because he's David.
— Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle
Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.
— Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex
Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make us happy all the time, who will respect, love and cherish us in everything, and we can't go far in the search because such personality is within us, not in the world we are living now!
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?
— Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex
True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Women want a lot of sex with the man they love
—  men want to have a lot of sex with a lot of different women.
Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.
— Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex
Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.
— Dermot Davis, The Younger Man
I want to make you hold onto that bag while I bury myself in you so hard and so deep you don't know your own name. -Nick Rixey
— Laura Kaye, Hard as It Gets
I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.
— Alicia Kobishop, The Fine Line
THE FOND OLD COUPLE WASDISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGHSUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.
— Jenny Holzer
Your wife is your life. Don't let strife thrive in your union.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Two things a wise man never discloses to the public
—  his money and his women.
Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.
— Hannah Anderson, Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image
When you are Happy with Someone,You never cares about those, who are Unhappy without you.
— Shashank Rayal
I don't need the most beautiful woman in the world I just need a woman who makes my world beautiful
— J.Bonner
He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything.
— Anne Beattie
If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.
— Jim George
I've always known that even if the world threatens to collapse, with one hand, you'd hold up the sky, and the other, around me.
— Xue Yun
Your heartbeat is a lullaby that puts my loneliness to sleep.
— Xue Yun
Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes as uncomfortable. We respond with doubt and suspicion. We misinterpret the signs. We do not understand the language. We accuse. We assert that the other person does not love us. But perhaps he merely loves us in some idiosyncratic way that we fail to recognize.
— Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
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.
— Toni Sorenson
Loving someone can never be difficult, it's when you judge the other person that everything tumbles.. Loving someone is easy, so I fall, rise or fly in love over and over again.. what's difficult is being loved in return.. Unrequited love is amusing.. It's more fun when the person you love doesn't know you do.. what's difficult is when he does.. and that makes you what you'd never want to be - Vulnerable.
— Sanhita Baruah
When you fall in love, you land on a cloud.
— Erol Ozan
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Like Mum and that bastard.” “You mean Da?”“Call him what you like.
— G.A. Aiken, Supernatural
Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.
— Ellen J. Barrier, The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. "Until the end of forever, Layel." -DELILAH
— Gena Showalter, The Vampire's Bride
Of all the things you said I couldn't doforgetting you has been the easiest...
— Sanhita Baruah
There is something beyond limits,in every relationship.
— pavankumar nagaraj
Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.
— Kyle Idleman, AHA: The God Moment That Changes Everything
Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines the kind of mate we attract, and it is through this mate that we are forever transformed – marriage as alchemy, but also as a mirror.
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.
— Alice  Walsh, A Poker Game of Love
You're every song I have ever sung. I'll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my dreams aren't about me."I lifted my eyes up to meet hiss, and he smiled."They're about you." -Jax Stone
— Abbi Glines, Breathe
Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.
— Anthony Liccione
Once upon a time, you were everything to me..and I was everything to you.
— marge baylin
But... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with?
— Fritz Diantan, Adlao: The Hidden Tribe
Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you have to cross to the other side with your dreams!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God)
— Jonathan R. Walton
I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are less valid and less real and less about a relationship than our own minds: Fear (of screwing up, of being left, of not being good enough), restlessness, resistance to growing up, PMS, not knowing how to live without drama, fearing that you're getting happy, and happiness is boring. The thing that scared me the most was the knowledge that if I stayed, something was going to change, and that something was probably me. I didn't know what changed me would look like, or if I would like her more or less than I already did. Would I still recognize myself? Would I still be myself?
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.
— Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
I want you. But I’m scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Let’s take it slow because some of the good things in life are worthy of reverence and appreciation. Let’s take it slow because what we have is like a cross-country ride, where all the breathtaking scenes must be breathed in and stared at with wonder. Let’s take it slow because getting to know you is like a trip to a museum where things, both wonderful and gruesome, are waiting to be discovered. Let’s take it slow because some things are best done at a leisurely pace — the slow dance, the first kiss, making love.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Love is fireworks. It’s the first dance. It’s the first kiss. It’s the first time you make love. It’s the first hateful word. It’s the first fight. It’s the first tear you shed. It’s the first time you made up.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo
— Cora Carmack, Faking It
I want you to want me. But I want you to want me for all the right reasons.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Love… is friendship. A deep, lasting foundation that you both decided to set on fire.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
He loves me. But I love you. But you love her. It’s always that way, isn’t it? You’re willing to wait for her just like I’m willing to wait for you… just like he’s willing to wait for me. Someday, we all might turn around and realize what we had in front of us all along. Someday, we might not.But until then, we’re all stuck at waiting.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
I want you to tell me that you feel the same way for me. And I’d like you to tell me those feelings are worth it. I’d like you to say I’m worth it.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Let’s take it slow because I’d like each moment we share to be etched in my memory. And I’d like these memories to make me smile wistfully someday. Let’s take it slow because I’m keeping a journal of our journey, and someday I’ll turn it into a book. I’d like our story to be rich in detail, and full of laughter and intriguing conversations. Let’s take it slow because all my life, I’ve always rushed into so many things, and they were all mistakes — I’d like you to be one of those things I’m going to do right. You deserve that much.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
I want to do Sunday brunch. I want to make love when it’s raining. I want to kiss when I wake up. I want to hold hands and never, ever, ever, let go.I want to do all of these.I want to do all of these with you.
— Sanny Oropel, Snippets of Imagery
All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because I’m much too wise to not know that lightning can’t really hit the same spot twice when it comes. All at once because right now, surrendering to irrationality seems to be the only thing that makes sense.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Love is a bonfire. It’s every kind word. It’s every sincere apology. It’s every compromise.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.
— W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
Love is a spark. It’s the smile that says come to me. It’s the flirty hello. It’s the scent of her perfume. It’s his new haircut. It’s the look that ignites a dozen possibilities. - Set on Fire
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
being together… it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We’d result to train wrecks. We’d cause whirlwinds. We’d start wildfires.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Love is a flame. It’s when you get to know each other again. It’s the fights that will follow your first. It’s you finding another reason to fall in love with each other. It’s both of you never getting tired of swaying to your first dance’s song.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
God does not call us to something without equipping us to do it. He faithfully gives us everything we need to walk with Him into the abundant life.
— Angel H. Davis, The Perfecting Storm: Experiencing God's Best Through the Trials of Marriage
Repentance restores your relationship with God.
— Jim George
Love is a flicker. It’s that hidden desire. It’s the words you’re afraid to say. It’s stolen glances. It’s the passive-aggressive hints. It’s the mixed signal. It’s the first brush against his hand. It’s the first time you daydream about her.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Slowly, then all at once.Slowly, as I take my time to know the things that would endear me to you. Slowly, as I attempt to cultivate a bond I hope would never easily sever. Slowly, as I get to know all your demons, and try to decide if I’m okay living with them everyday. Slowly, I also unleash my demons on you, hoping they won’t make me look ugly, wouldn’t make you think less of me.Slowly, as I let myself get used to the idea that you can be a possible permanent fixture in my life. Slowly, as I tell the difference between what I think I see, and what’s really there. Slowly, as I find myself looking to you for reassurance that hey, I’m alright. Slowly, as I find my thoughts drifting toward you when I see or hear or find things that remind me of you. Slowly, as I catch myself dedicating to you all of the pieces that I’ve been writing.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
Love is warmth. It’s the inside jokes. It’s the reassuring touch. It’s the late night talks. It’s the finding of common interests. It’s the sharing of ice cream. It’s the crying shoulder. It’s the acceptance of what’s ugly. It’s the first time you see her without make up. It’s the first time you see him pick his nose.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora
— Jay Crownover, Rome
Cora,come on now. You can find a guy in, like, a second flat. Half the guys in the band have you on their laminated list."She rolled her expressive eyes at me. "I want something real, Jet. Something that is life changing and dramatic, something that makes me forget anyone else ever existed. I just can't see that happening and it makes me sad.""I think you're maybe reaching for something that doesn't exist.
— Jay Crownover, Jet
Love lifts you up. Love is giving and kindness. Love is encouraging. Love is healing. If these things do not surround you, you are in the wrong relationship.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret
You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Never leave your life plan to be determined by people who are not going where you are going. For the sake of your dreams and also for the sake of the people God created to benefit from your God-give talents, stay away from toxic people. Mount the shoulder giants and see farther ahead!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, your become "a gold alloy" and what that means is that you can rust at any time!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.
— Jacques Monod
Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.
— Filippo Bologna, The Parrots
The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!
— David G. Jones
Keep it calm and watch the company you keep. It's either a red card or a green card you are holding. One guides you to go on, and the other makes you give up on scoring your goals
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again!
— Hamidreza Bagheri
Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem! Job, the man of God kept his wife afar before he could make it again!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
— Randy Alcorn, Courageous
Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.
— Henry Walter Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazons
You’re breaking up with me because I’m not a successful guitarist, and because I seem like I’m just a guy handing out pamphlets on a street corner! You’re disgusted.” This is why Adrian is disgusted with Adrian and has nothing to do with me. Very little of our relationship has much to do with me, which is one of the actual reasons I’m breaking up with him. He loves me but doesn’t really understand me – so, in effect, does he really love me?
— Gregory Sherl, Ab morgen ein Leben lang
Idea lady is the ideal lady!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win, happiness is more important then colors.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Love is like a piece of chocalate. It looks and tastes good, but it's dark. What really matters is the inside.
— Touaxia Vang
Don't come closer to me at any time without make-up. I may slap and make you feel the taste of death.
— Jeevagan Nagarajan
The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Marriage is a partnership
—  not a sole proprietorship.
Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives...
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer and forgetting that the answer is just beside us. You have to learn to ask and to listen. If one does not listen, the other does not exist. When the other does not exist, one is alone. I don’t want to be alone, do you?
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Pandora's Box
Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries in Marriage
A relationship means you come together to make each other better. It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about them. Its all about the relationship.Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other.Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them.
— Trent Shelton
When you go through a breakup, it feels likesomeone died. And the truth is that someone has died – the relationship.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
It’s a tricky art, working with them in their purest form,” she mused. “Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex.” It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.
— Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart
Don’t play with damaged goods, you will only hurt yourself.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Often times you may find yourself in a relationship with a guy who looks like he is a mature adult, but then you find out that he’s just a selfish baby underneath that wonderful expensive cologne.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Value your wife by valuing what she says.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
It’s just you and me against the world, Pidge.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
If he’s hitting you now, stop contemplating leaving him, and just leave.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
You may eventually decide to breakup, and that’s fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains won't do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course you take the chance that you'll end up hurting them, or they'll end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That's the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves.
— Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving one
— Pawan Mehra
In a cute relationship you will always have cutest fights without any reason
— Pawan Mehra
Some of the most beautiful and rewarding relationships come from mutual respect that eventually burned into fervent passion. Don’t take for granted the friendship you are building at the moment, just appreciate it and cherish it for what it is.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
An awesome friend is everything.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving on
— Pawan Mehra
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.
— C.D. Darlington
Only boring people are bored in relationships.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Our reactions to trials, tests, and tribulations are products of the price we're willing to pay to stay delivered.
— Okisha Jackson
Sometimes It is really important to explain how much love and care you have for someone. It doesn't mean that If you have lot and do not need to explain but it means that explanations make a relationship more strong.
— Pawan Mehra
It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.
— Anthony Liccione
Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date
— Jeevagan Nagarajan
Do you, Damon Chroi, sovereign of the Goblin Kingdom, take this woman, Diana Piper, to be your queen and wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, in times of angry gods and rogue goblins, in true name-induced death and in health, because she resurrected you - you lucky bastard - to love and to cherish even when she's more powerful than you and kicking your ass at everything you do, from this day forward until she can no longer stand the smell of rain? - Roman D'Angelo
— Heather Killough-Walden, The Goblin King
Not every person wants the prettiest, smartest, talented or spiritually uplifting person to build a life with. Sometimes we just want that special someone that makes sense, puts up with us, has patience, comes without drama, gives us focus and is willing to run with our half-baked ideas.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a More Vibrant Marriage
There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always a BOY FRIEND, never a BOYFRIEND.
— Christian Simamora, Pillow Talk
A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partnersdo not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gayand swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. To touch heavily would be to arrest the patternand freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no placehere for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Nowarm in arm, now face to face, now back to back—it does not matter which. Because they know theyare partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished byit.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.
— Anthony Liccione, Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
— Robin Hobb, Golden Fool
If you're making a conscious effort…someone should be meeting you on the same page. Don't be silly be smart.
— Turcois Ominek
As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him your ears! Test the Spirits...and don't be a religious fanatic!
— Israelmore Ayivor
I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time!
— Arzum Uzun
The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates us from the prison of the body, as they say, from this perennial dependency on the material, physical, and bodily life - finally rendering our souls light, weightless, free, spiritual? We [must] consider more profoundly the meaning of the body... We must consider the role of the body in our, in my, life. On the one hand, of course it is entirely clear that all of our bodies are transitory and impermanent. Biologists have calculated that all the cells that compose our bodies are replaced every seven years. Thus, physiologically, every seven years we have a new body. Therefore, at the end of my life the body that is laid in the grave or consumed by fire is no longer the same body as all the preceding ones, and in the final analysis each of our bodies is nothing other than our individual [being] in the world, as the form of my dependence on the world, on the one hand, and of my life and of my activity on the other. In essence, my body is my relationship to the world, to others; it is my life as communion and as mutual relationship. Without exception, everything in the body, in the human organism, is created for this relationship, for this communion, for this coming out of oneself. It is not an accident, of course, that love, the highest form of communion, finds its incarnation in the body; the body is that which sees, hears, feels, and thereby leads me out of the isolation of my *I*. But then, perhaps, we can say in response: the body is not the darkness of the soul, but rather the body is its freedom, for the body is the soul as love, the soul as communion, the soul as life, the soul as movement. And this is why, when the soul loses the body, when it is separated from the body, it loses life.
— Alexander Schmemann, O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.
— Luella Christie, Coco Chan