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This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.
— Howard W. Hunter
To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977
They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured."Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to.""Are you sure?""She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you dare point a gun at your own brother!
— Kazue Kato
The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.
— Minhal Mehdi
When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, until, eventually, it chokes out all the other life there. Trust, love, kindness – none of those things can ever really bloom in a garden of fear.
— Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!
— Joyce Meyer
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.
— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River
Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want you to adopt as your own, and to question how it is they are observing the world themselves that has them seeing things as they do. Sometimes you need to take back the authority you are giving to the opinions of others and place a bit more trust in yourself.
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
You want the truth? I’ve been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that includes you.” Frank shrugged. “Don’t take it personal.”“Join the club. We meet Tuesdays. We never share the location with each other, and we show up armed.
— Aleksandr Voinov, Collateral
To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.
— Charles R. Swindoll, Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication: Profiles in Character from
A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.
— Sue Merrell, One Shoe Off
When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
I considered him and felt the now familiar crush of emotions weighing on me, begging me to cave in and fall into his strong arms.I pushed back with every ounce of energy I had left. Every time I trusted someone, I got hurt. Every time I let go, I was let down. Not again. I would drive them away before the left.
— Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater
Luck I get,” she said when they’d sat in silence once more. “But why brave?”He shifted in his seat then sat forward, his gaze piercing through her. “Because, Natalia, love is a risk. Love from the depths of your soul requires a certain amount of sacrifice. It bids you to give yourself wholly to another. To allow someone to view you like a prism, assessing you at every angle, examining every flaw. You must lay yourself before them, open and bare, and say, ‘here I am. I hold nothing back. I am yours, mind, body, and soul.’ And all you can do is hope they don’t crush you.” He leaned closer. “But the man who truly loves you will tend to your heart like he tends a garden, nurturing it until it grows and blooms under his hand.
— Leia Shaw, Destiny Unchained
A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.
— Eduardo Halfon, The Polish Boxer
when there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding
— Tun Teja
Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences
— Ivan Yelkin
The truth begins where trust ends.
— Ivan Yelkin
She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.
— Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.
— Anthony Liccione
I’m two hours late when I pull in to the driveway. It won’t matter that I’m always on time. People never see how good you are. Fuck up once, and it’s like you are wearing a neon sign.
— Corrine Jackson, If I Lie
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
— Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It’s to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.
— Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean.""Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so.""Why?""Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle.""'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me.""Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it."The whistle of the engine came again."Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.
— Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train
I believed I would never trust another person for as long as I lived. Yet, I couldn't help but trust him; the decision was made before I even realized what was happening. He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe.
— Rachel Higginson, Fearless Magic
If I can't trust your word, I can't trust you.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
— Mary Oliver, West Wind
Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone- I have no proof for it.Elizabeth: You were alone wit
— Arthur Miller, The Crucible
To me, the most important rules in life are:1. Never trust people you love.2. Never trust people you don't love.3. Never trust people at all.
— Girl234
I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.
— Brendan Halpin, Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom
Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
— Captain Chief
My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
— Steven Herrick, Cold Skin
How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you’re neither good nor great, you can only use fear...
— J.H. Myn, Blade and Bone
Yesterday was a dark day in the history of humanity, a terrible affront to human dignity. After receiving the news, I followed with intense concern the developing situation, with heartfelt prayers to the Lord. How is it possible to commit acts of such savage cruelty? The human heart has depths from which schemes of unheard-of ferocity sometimes emerge, capable of destroying in a moment the normal daily life of a people. But faith comes to our aid at these times when words seem to fail. Christ’s word is the only one that can give a response to the questions which trouble our spirit. Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Christian hope is based on this truth; at this time our prayerful trust draws strength fro
— John Paul II
None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
Sebastian tapped his index finger on the polished wood thoughtfully. Yes, it was a universal truth: some things once broken were broken forever—like trust. It might be patched up and smoothed over, but it would always be the thing that had once been shattered.
— Carol Oates, Iridescent
Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication.
— Deborah A. Beasley
Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I'll pick her up and I'll carry her. I'll try to heal her. I'll cry when she cries. And I'll rejoice when she is well. In all the moments of my life, God has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do.
— Clark Davis
I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.
— Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother
When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?
— Martine Murray, The Wilful Eye
Trust is such a devious term. When you trust someone, are you not merely assuming that they are what they say that they are? If you place so much in the trust that you have for that one person, then you should place the same amount of trust in assuming that they are not what they appear to be. If there is a wall in front of you that does not allow you to do that, then you must place all of your trust in the fact that your trust is misplaced.
— Lionel Suggs
I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.
— Catherine Sanderson, Petite Anglaise
In passion we trust, for passion finds infinity and says that is how many ways I can exist.
— Corinne Meier
We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.
— Ryan Winfield, South of Bixby Bridge
I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.
— Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood and Shadow
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His steps slowed to a stop. “Why?” His voice was a ghost in the quiet. “Why give me your trust when you know it is such an easy thing to break?”“Perhaps the easy giving of it will make it harder to break
— Kristen Callihan, Firelight
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.
— Katherine Boo
She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.
— Cheryl Strayed, Torch
Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old babywhen you throw him in the air,he laughsbecause he knows you will catch him;
— Abhishek Thakore
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
We are never alone God will always be with us.
— Edwin Medina
I ask myself, who do i trust? Then i answered, No-one
— donwayne
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.
— Katherine Boo
I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous eyes
— zwaantje nacion
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him
— Katherine Boo
if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
— Johnny Depp
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
This is the part where I kiss you.
— Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relationships hap­pen.There is no rule that requires two people in love to be ex­actly alike. In fact, there is some scientific evidence to suggest that on a genetic level, the people who are the most opposite are the most likely to have a healthy and long-lasting pairing. But really, who can explain the mysteries of attraction? Blame it on Cupid.The moon.The shape of a smile. Both of you can thrive on your differences, as long as you respect them. You say tomato, he says tomahto .Let it happen,Dive in head first. We usually learn the most about ourselves from people who are different from us.—Miss Independent (ella varner)
— Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
— Martin Buber
I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into." -Alexander Sterling
— Ellen Schreiber, Vampire Kisses
I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on
— Rascal Flatts
It occurred to me that my cheek was probably right over his tattoo. Without thinking, I lifted my face and tugged at the neckline of his T-shirt. This time, the stark black-and-gold mark wasn't hidden. No need for that spell anymore, I guess. Still, I covered it with my palm. Archer's hands clutched reflexively on my waist. Our eyes met. "It doesn't burn this time," I whispered.His breathing was ragged. "Beg to differ, Mercer.
— Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass
You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.''Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine - It's the bottom I guess we forgot
— Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.
— Kiera Cass, The Elite
If a guy can't even handle my words, I don't think he can handle me as a person.
— Anna Bayes, Snug Fit
Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
I'm not over you. I dream about you every night. I watch that fucking video over and over just to hear your voice. Does that make you happy? Is that proof I cared?
— Leah Raeder, Unteachable
Real love has little to do with falling. It's a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the critical point in their relationship that summons the attention of the light and the dark, that place where they will make a commitment to love no matter what obstacles-or temptations- appear in their path.
— Stacey Jay, Juliet Immortal
If you want to know what a truly healthy relationship is, it’s one where both people wake up every morning and say, “I choose to be with this person.
— Robert  Morrow, Ringing True
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
— Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
— Nicholas Sparks
Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
— Nicholas Sparks
When people say they don't want to get into a relationship, it should never be taken into face value because it is never really the whole truth. It is usually a vast collection of issues and fears and complications, forced to conceal one tiny hope lurking underneath it all: that someday, somebody will come along to discover, accept and understand and strengthen that feeble hope.
— Marla Miniano, Every Girl's Guide to Flings
All real living is meeting.
— Martin Buber, I and Thou
But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels.""Work boots?" What was sexy about that? And did women have work boots?"Yeah. You know, the boots she pulls out when she wants to get down and dirty, hiking or gardening or boating or painting the kitchen. The ones she relies on and trusts and lives her life hard and good and on her terms in. Her favorites.
— Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast
Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.
— Simone Elkeles
I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
— Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?
In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.
— David Richo, When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for God. And every good thing we experience is meant to be a metaphor of what we can only find in Him.... We settle for the satisfaction of human relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.
— Paul David Tripp
The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don't deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her.
— Ellen J. Barrier
We are his temple. We do not turn in a certain directlon to pray. We are not bound by having to go into a building so that we can commune with God. There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed, and wealth.
— Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
— Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect
If I am seeking to get identity from you ,I will watch you too closely, listen to you too intently, and need you to fundamentally. I will ride the roller coaster of your best and worst moments and everything in between. And because I am watching you too closely, I will become acutely aware of your weaknesses and failures. I will become overly critical, frustrated, disappointed, hopeless, and angry. I will be angry not because you are a sinner but because you have failed to deliver the one thing I seek from you: identity. But none of us will ever get the well-being that comes from knowing who we are from our relationships. Instead we will be left with damaged relationships filled with hurt, frustration and anger.
— Paul David Tripp
Our purpose (in relationship) is to get what we want but God's purpose is to give us what we really need. We think things are going well only if we are getting along with others. But God says that it is also when we are not getting along with others that he is accomplishing his purpose.God has designed our relationship to function as both a diagnosis and a cure.
— Paul David Tripp
An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable. It has all the good points of love, and none of its drawbacks. No jealousy, no quarrels, no greed to possess, no fear of losing possession, no hatred (which is very much a part of love), no surge of passion and no hangover afterward. It never reaches the heights, and it never reaches the depths.As a rule it comes on subtly. As theirs did. As a rule the two involved are not even aware of it at first. As they were not. As a rule it only becomes noticeable when it is interrupted in some way, or broken off by circumstances. As theirs was. In other words, its presence only becomes known in its absence. It is only missed after it stops. While it is still going on, little thought is given to it, because little thought needs to be.It is pleasant to meet, it is pleasant to be together. To put your shopping packages down on a little wire-backed chair at a little table at a sidewalk cafe, and sit down and have a vermouth with someone who has been waiting there for you. And will be waiting there again tomorrow afternoon. Same time, same table, same sidewalk cafe. Or to watch Italian youth going through the gyrations of the latest dance craze in some inexpensive indigenous night-place-while you, who come from the country where the dance originated, only get up to do a sedate fox trot. It is even pleasant to part, because this simply means preparing the way for the next meeting.One long continuous being-together, even in a love affair, might make the thing wilt. In an attachment it would surely kill the thing off altogether. But to meet, to part, then to meet again in a few days, keeps the thing going, encourages it to flower.And yet it requires a certain amount of vanity, as love does; a desire to please, to look one's best, to elicit compliments. It inspires a certain amount of flirtation, for the two are of opposite sex. A wink of understanding over the rim of a raised glass, a low-voiced confidential aside about something and the smile of intimacy that answers it, a small impromptu gift - a necktie on the one part because of an accidental spill on the one he was wearing, or of a small bunch of flowers on the other part because of the color of the dress she has on.So it goes.And suddenly they part, and suddenly there's a void, and suddenly they discover they have had an attachment.Rome passed into the past, and became New York.Now, if they had never come together again, or only after a long time and in different circumstances, then the attachment would have faded and died. But if they suddenly do come together again - while the sharp sting of missing one another is still smarting - then the attachment will revive full force, full strength. But never again as merely an attachment. It has to go on from there, it has to build, to pick up speed. And sometimes it is so glad to be brought back again that it makes the mistake of thinking it is love.("For The Rest Of Her Life")
— Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness
I will be the one to leave you.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
But don’t ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, thosemoments when it doesn’t are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you’re half asleep.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Shadows
Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.~Anna Percy
— Zoey Dean, Tall Cool One
I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.
— Danielle Steel, Second Chance
There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.
— Edmund White
If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
And remember, it's always her fault. That's your story and you're sticking to it.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.
— Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble.""Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible
A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!
— Santosh Kalwar, Adventus
I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship
— Amit Abraham
..."Dont marry an orange and expect him to turn into an apple." If you want an orange, great. If not, put him back in the proverbial fruit bowl for someone else to enjoy and move on.
— Amy E. Spiegel, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
— Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.
— Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
We all look for strategies or techniques that will free us from the pain of relationships and the hard work good relationships demand. We hope that better planning, more effective communication, clear role definitions, conflict resolution strategies, gender studies, and personality typing--to name just a few -- will make the difference. There may be value in these things, but if they were all we needed, Jesus' life, death, and resurrection would be unnecessary or, at best, redundant. Skills and techniques appeal to us because they promise that relational problems can be fixed by tweaking our behavior without altering the bent of our hearts. But the Bible says something very different. It says that Christ is the only real hope for relationships because only he can dig deep enough to address the core motivations and desires of our hearts.Most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength. Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship.
— Paul David Tripp
I closed my eyes and resigned myself to the fact that my boyfriend was a pervert. He was lucky he was so cute.
— J.M. Colail, Wes and Toren
Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.
— Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars
Sometimes our highest goal becomes our big enemy when we move towards our goal blindly without focusing on the path we follow.
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not.
— Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast
The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.
— Melissa Bank
... to be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to talk with each other eye into eye, not able to feel each others touch; makes it difficult for a Long Distance Relationship to work.
— Abhijeet Sawant
Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.
— Russ Harris, ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
— Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
I am a relationship phoenix: I crash and burn and then I rise and start again.
— Ted Michael, Crash Test Love
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.
— Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. In those early months we clung to each other with a rather silly desperation, because, in spite of everything my mother or Mrs Jordan could say, there was nothing that really prevented us from seeing each other. With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang. I was victim to his hero. I was always in danger and he was always rescuing me. I would fall and he would lift me up. It was exhilarating and draining. The emotional effect of saving and being saved was addicting to both of us. And that, as much as anything we ever did in bed, was how we made love to each other: conjoined where my weaknesses needed protection.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love...I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.
— Omar Sharif
Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.
— Valerie Frankel, The Girlfriend Curse
Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything to do with sin and our potential has everything to do with Christ. Sin always draws towards self-interest. It is possible that even in our most altruistic moments are driven by what we get out of them
— Timothy S. Lane, Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
If you look for God in your relationships, you will always find things to be thankful for. When God reigns in our hearts, peace reigns in our relationships. This work will only be complete in heaven but there is much we can enjoy now.
— Timothy S. Lane, Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him.When we live out a sense of who we are IN CHRIST we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us. Much of the disappointments and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.
— Timothy S. Lane, Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
— Rollo May, Existence
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
— Joyce Brothers
I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.
— Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
Whatever's between us is that kind of new.
— Courtney Summers
Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered.
— S.J. Watson
He envied straight couples the easy openness of their relationships. At that moment, he would've given anything to know what it was like to take his lover's hand without a second's consideration for what anyone else might think, or do.
— Ally Blue, Twilight
Octave staggered to his feet, his stick swinging back to point toward Nicholas. He felt a wave of heat and saw spellfire crackle along the length of polished wood, preparing itself for another explosive burst. Crack was moving toward Octave, but Madeline shouted, "Get back!"Nicholas ducked, as a shot exploded behind him. Octave fell backward on the carpet and the blue lightning flared once and vanished with a sharp crackle.Nicholas looked at Madeline. She stepped forward, holding a small double-action revolver carefully and frowning down at the corpse. He said, "I wondered what you were waiting for.""You were in my line of fire, dear," she said, preoccupied. "But look.
— Martha Wells, The Death of the Necromancer
We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me...
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
reconciling grace, saving grace of Jesus"[In regards to struggles and potential in relationship],..we are sinner with capacity to to do great damage to ourselves and our relationships. We need God's grace to save us from ourselves. But we are also God's children, which means that we have great hope and potential-- not hope that rests on our gifts, experience, or track record, but hope that rests in Christ. Because he is in us and we are in him, it is right to say that our potential IS Christ. We are well aware that we are smack-dab in the middle of God's process of sanctification. And because this is true, we will struggle again. Selfishness, pride, an unforgiving spirit, irritation, and impatience will certainly return. But we are neither afraid nor hopeless. We have experienced what God can do in the middle of the mess. This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle. None of us get to relate to perfect people or avoid the effects of the fall on the work we attempt to do. Yet amid the mess, we find the highest joys of relationship and ministry.
— Timothy S. Lane, Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
Tell me what good touch is and what is bad for I am young and I have no dad. -Jenifer
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business
—  especially where desert toppin's involved.
When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.
— Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.
— Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect
But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
It doesn't matter if people doesn't know that you do a good thing nor the right thing. But he nor she must know your expression of love.
— Olivia Sinaga
In any serious relationship, if you don't gather your partner's opinion before making a decision that impacts you both, you're just storing up trouble for the future.
— Cindy Woodsmall, The Christmas Singing
Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.
— Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity
If you can’t Respect her, you don’t Deserve Her!
— Udayveer Singh
Sometimes the best discoveries are the result of simple observations
— Dr. Seyed Reza Agha Seyed Hosseini
Hmmm, good isn’t fun, but I’ll try,” he whispers to me. ~ The Light Tamer
— Devyn Dawson
Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she is over what the children eat. It is far better to maintain harmony and let mother cope with the problem later. You can use the excuse "You are only having this because Mummy's in hospital!".
— Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia, NMAA Cooks
The more you communicate love in your relationship, you breathe new life into it.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret, Pillow Talk: Connecting More Deeply to the One You Love- One Question at a Time
JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch!
— Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Motherfucker With the Hat
She won't know it if I'm not say it." Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.
— Olivia Sinaga
Once again standing on past route.
— Remembrance
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
— Ted Hughes
They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.
— Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.
— Robert M. Pirsig
In a health relationship, it should always be about them. Two people are involved. And both of them are risking their hearts, their souls, in order to stay together. If both parties don't support and appreciate the individuality of the other, the relationship won't work.
— Lisa S. Lewis, Love's Road Home
He and the second wife must have made a very close, self-contained unit--two people moving through life as if in a thinly membraned bubble, venturing out separately for practical purposes but neither of them whole unless they were together. People who didn't need many friends or outside activities, who found complete fulfillment in each other.
— Bill Pronzini, Spook
The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony in her eyes, the shadows that flickered in the background. If I could, I'd take her pain and make it my own. I'd swallow it like a bitter pill and live with the consequences.
— T.J. Forrester, Miracles, Inc.: A Novel