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Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.
— Elizabeth George, One-Minute Inspirations for Women
I wanted to make him understand that we shared the details of our lives, because they were the threads that braided us so closely together. And you would have been certain to tell me about a Sabatier knife, because it would have had the rare value of being a detail in your life which tied directly into mine - Bee in Sister
— Rosamund Lupton
A Very Short Poem for Poor LoversYou’ve got nothing,I’ve got nothing,And it’s not a good thing.
— Arzum Uzun
The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.
— Don Scribner, Who Killed Love
Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.
— Shahla Khan, I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.
As we grow in our family… let’s not forget that we, as a couple, still need attention… let’s not lose grip of the excitement of our flirtation and our passion for each other… while we tend to the 'we,' let’s not forget the 'us'.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Some of my friends are not being a friend of me...
— Jeevagan Nagarajan
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.
— William Morris Davis
at first sight everyone seems like human.
— Arzum Uzun
Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.
— Elizabeth George, A Wife After God's Own Heart
Katherine,” he says when we finish. We’re breathing each other’s air and lying side by side, our noses almost touching.“Mick,” I say.“I love your name. It suits you perfectly. Katherine. Katherine. Katherine and Mick.”And when he says my name like that, right next to his, everything is different. I’ve never really liked being called Katherine—all this time, despite what I’ve said, I’ve desperately missed being called Katie. I’ve missed being Katie.But I’m no longer Katie, I’m Katherine—and tonight, for the first time ever, I don’t want to be anyone else.
— Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice
A year ago I would’ve been taken in by his chivalry, but now I knew what laid behind the façade: a frog waiting to bite me where it hurt the most given half the chance.
— Luella Christie, Onyx Fox
Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Don't make anybody Use you,be smart , else Dont curse them when they chew u out and throw you,they were smart not you
— Akshay
One word can end a fight
—  One hug can start a friendship
Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.
— Pratik Akkawar
A couple in love is like a pair of scissors. Two useless pieces of metal, until they are inextricably connected at the core so that they can move together as one and accomplish great things.
— Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Married Life!: 101 Inspirational Stories about Fun, Family, and Wedded Bliss
The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without good health.10. Love without a lover.
— Israelmore Ayivor
When it comes to youI can’t help myselfI’ve never been thisattachedto someone’s flaws
— Audrey Rey
Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.
— Zygmunt Bauman
A relationship is a game of chess.
— Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.
— Anthony Liccione
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
This is where we come," he said. Albie and I look at each other. “We?”“Me and, you know.”Albie’s eyes got wide. “I really don’t think I want to know about this.” I surprised myself. “I do,” I said. I guess I was tired of having to withhold the truth from Toby. Other than Ben, he and Albie we’re easily my best friends at Natick. Toby looked a little surprised, like he’d just assumed we wouldn’t want to hear the details. “You do?”“Yeah.”He looked around to make sure we were alone. We definitely were. No one came back here to my knowledge. Also it was cold. Like twenty degrees. Only three idiots would be in the woods in the winter, it seemed to me. “Robinson” he said. “Gorilla Butt,” I said, nodding. “I know.”“You know?”“Yup.”Toby crossed his arms an then deflated into a fake pout. “You’re stealing my scene, bitch. Scene stealer.”“Sorry,” I said. “So you and Gorilla Butt. Wow.”He flipped me off. “He hates that,” Toby said. “But, yeah. It’s hairy.”“Oh, look, almost anything else in the universe,” Albie said, heading back to campus and leaving us in the clearing. “He’s such a prude,” Toby said rolling his eyes.
— Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight
When someone does`nt wanna talk to you, you have no choice but to help them.
— Cyc Jouzy
The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time.
— Arzum Uzun
As the years go by, it’s our relationships that will leave us the best memories to celebrate endlessly.
— Wes Adamson
The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.
— Shannon Celebi
All living relationships are in process ofchange, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no singlefixed form to express such a changing relationship.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
What he wanted was Megan wanting him... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again... and simply failing.
— Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married
True closeness respects each other's space.You can never get any measuring instrument to compare and set on a pedestal how one truly cares for you in any kind of relationship.There is a big difference between closeness and dependency, compassionate, honest, generous, humble heart thanprejudiced, jealous, insecure heart.Each one should respect the growth of a relationship as we all evolve in a world interconnected with many hearts, minds and souls.
— Angelica Hopes
A relationship without trust is a waste of time
— Prince simus
Try me, and you will start LOVING..!!
— Nikhil Anubhav Minz
Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.
— Anthony Liccione
Dont Abuse The Fact That Nobody Is Perfect For Your Over Imperfection.
— Cyc Jouzy
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Try me, and you start LOVING!!
— Nikhil Anubhav Minz
Try me, amd you will start LOVING!
— Nikhil Anubhav Minz
Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
It wasn’t closure, really. But I’d said the right things. I’d hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn’t get closure. Maybe some things weren’t really worth it, or didn’t really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious.
— Vee Hoffman
And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.
— Blakney Francis, Someone I Used to Know
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Strength is finding the courage to let another person in. Strength is opening your heart to him and exposing yourself in all vulnerabilities- No matter how terrifying that may be.
— Scarlett Edwards, Change of Heart, Part 2
What matters in relationship isn't how you see each other, but whether you see each other.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal secrets, the value of the relationship is just an illusion. Love cannot be earned, bought or traded–only freely given. You are worthy of love that doesn’t require you to protect your abuser or sacrifice yourself.
— Christina Enevoldsen
In my relationship, she is my woman and I am her man. This designation is not one of ownership, but of passion. It is a loving and passionate expression that reflects the truth that out of over seven billion people in the world, she is my ONE.
— Steve Maraboli
Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love...
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.
— Layla M. Wier, Homespun
I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself with such petty things as fingerprint powder, telltale pieces of pocket fluff and inane footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs Rawlinson."Let me give you an example. If you go to an acupuncturist with toothache he sticks a needle instead into your thigh. Do you know why he does that, Mrs Rawlinson?No, neither do I, Mrs Rawlinson, but we intend to find out. A pleasure talking to you, Mrs Rawlinson. Goodbye.
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
People don’t change just because you know more about them.
— Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear
Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
It is not a religion. It is a relationship.
— Unknown Author 516
A Relationship Should Come With An ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK Sign.
— Cyc Jouzy
It's the same with [my wife] -- when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I'm not worried with the kind of relationship we've got. Most people, they don't leave room for mistakes in their relationship.
— Wyclef Jean
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
— A.S.A. Harrison, The Silent Wife
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends...!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back
—  but isn’t willing to leave his lover for them.
A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!
— Mehek Bassi
God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enlightenment, our seeing. God wills our forgiveness, our release from sin and guilt. God wills that we see ourselves as God’s beloved. God wills our resurrection, our passage from death to life. God wills for us food and drink that satisfy our hunger and thirst. God wills, comprehensively, our well-being—not just my well-being as an individual but the well-being of all of us and of the whole of creation. In short, God wills our salvation, our healing, here on earth. The Christian life is about participating in the salvation of God.
— Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.
— Anthony Liccione
Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.
— Leah Raeder, Unteachable
Honesty is not always the bestpolicy when it hurts theperson you care about themost and pushes them away.
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.
— Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For the monarchical model, sin is primarily disloyalty to the king, seen especially as disobedience to his laws. The metaphors used to express the Spirit model suggest something else. For the metaphor of God as lover, sin is unfaithfulness—that is, sin is going after other lovers.
— Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.
— Sarah Dessen
There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going
—  men are more interested in where the woman has been.
Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you’ve ‘known’ for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the ‘previous’ level.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My love for you it sings, It cries My love for you it dreams,It wake’sMy love for you it gives,It takesMy love for you it lives,But never dies.
— Dave Guerrero
Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. "You your best thing, Sethe, You are." His holding fingers are holding hers. "Me? Me?
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
Time changes..., relation changes with time...;but, the feelings nd love... that never changes, never fades...!Infact, love nd feelings are immortal...!
— Sudeep Prakash Sdk
Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation
—  either it is material or spiritual.
I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.
— Anna Bayes, Under His Wings
No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you and reel you back in. No matter what.
— Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
— Joshua Harris, Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.
— Israelmore Ayivor
It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Don’t go woman on me and tell me you don’t need a man to complete you. It’s bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that’s not a waste. That’s a crying shame.
— Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside
If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.
— Leah Raeder, Unteachable
You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
— Irina Bors
She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly
—  she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
It takes both sides to build a bridge.
— Fredrik Nael
I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.
— J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
He wrapped his arms around me. We were cuddled up like a couple of spoons in a cutlery drawer.
— Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses
I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.”Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the kids,” he said. “Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go.” He sighed. “Touch and go, brother, that’s the rule. Don’t ever let yourself be owned.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Time, not money, is your biggest asset in life. You need time to invest in relationships (with yourself and your family) or to chase your passion."Think again" if you are still trading off time for money.Let your money work for you. You don't work for money. That is exactly what Financial Freedom is...
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth.
— Ryū Murakami, 69
Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your identity as a professional, even the pressures of the culture of mastery that expects you to heal your clients without fail. Never mind all of the variables over which you have no control, it is up to you, according to the canons of mastery, to control the health and well-being of those for whom you provide professional care. This potentiates a furthering alienation between you and your clients. You are at risk to become, if you have not already, the one who does to your clients; to be the one the active subject acting upon the passive and receptive objects, your clients; to be the one in possession of special knowledge, technique and mastery. All of this conspires to coax or coerce you into treating your client as reduced, a mere case. Unawareness to these influences gives you little chance to consider their influence on your practice in the clinical setting, much less give attentive efforts to resist or change them.
— Scott E. Spradlin
You and I were never meant to be together, but we are. Our pairing is not unlike two electrons ignoring natural laws in order to orbit one another. Life now defies reason—quirky but beautiful.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Life is beautiful,though the circumstances and situations around us may not say so,but life is certainly beautiful
— Wogu Donald
Creativity is an integral part of existence and it emanates from the mind.
— Wogu Donald
A mad man is thinking because he is not thinking
— udeagha iwuchukwu michael
Your future is in the scripture so do not ignore the scripture
— udeagha iwuchukwu michael
Dear Uncle Bernard - Your niece Frances - a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat - thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I've never been one to spend time thinking about why men and women take to each other, or why they don't. I think it can turn a lady neurotic, a term I despise but also am loath to have turned in my direction.
— Carlene Bauer, Frances and Bernard
There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it easier for him to hand it over
— Ivena When Heaven Weeps Ted Dekker
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
— Timothy J. Keller
You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers
— Binye Vincent
Relationship is made for two people, but obviously some people don’t know how to count.
— Nina Ardianti, Restart
Sometimes when you don’t expect to meet someone, apparently they will appear in front of you, so many times.
— Nina Ardianti, Restart
There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
I thought you're someone worth fighting for. But after all, you're not.
— Nina Ardianti, Restart
V’s reference to his age, specifically the difference between them, only pissed Zane off more. He hated that she used that as an excuse. She’d tried it one other time, and if he remembered correctly, she’d been sprawled out beneath him in ten seconds flat, begging him to let her come.
— Nicole Edwards, Zane
Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents andpurposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
I don’t wanna be in a fake-perfect-relationship. Because, however, it will eventually turn to be a shitty relationship. And why on earth, I would put myself inside a shitty and tiring relationship while there are probabilities and chances to have a real happy relationship out there?
— Nina Ardianti, Restart
Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels.
— Nina Ardianti, Restart
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
I’m sorry but I will manage my anger when you manage your childishness.
— Nina Ardianti, Restart
Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.
— Gary Chapman, Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
It takes two to tango”
—  one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.
When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
So how long have you been together? Two months?''Five.''Five? Jesus, Steve, you might as well get married. I should buy a hat.''Don't. They give away your Spock ears.'She laughed. 'This is the Romanian girl?''Croatian.''Right. She's a painter?''Photographer.''Right.' She studied him.'What?' he laughed self-consciously as though he was a twelve-year-old boy who'd just been caught with his first girlfriend.'Nothing.''Come on.''I don't know Steve,' she cut into her meat, 'you've changed. You no longer write about Victoria Beckham and you have a girlfriend. I think...''You think what?''I don't know, I might be jumping the gun here, but I think there's a possibility you might not be gay after all.'A chip was hurled at her head.
— Cecelia Ahern, One Hundred Names
The 'dance of love' has different themes and moods, just like every relationship has its highs and lows. Enjoy the high moments and hang-on during the downtimes. The diverse range of emotions is the experience that builds you two. Your ability to perfectly switch between these moments and make the best out of the one you find yourself per time, proves that you are not only involved in the relationship like the chicken is in the business of making eggs but also very committed to it like the pig is in the business of making bacon.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.
— Lily Burana, I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles
every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat—cheese and bread basically—but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies,” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could’ve strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy—some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread—and I would’ve liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters’ fucked-up relationship with food.
— Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.
— Brian Logan Dales
Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
What I know about you, Henry,” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
love is a drug but is nt all drugs that we do take in.
— lexis smigz
Ursula, we have to talk…' he said, almost blurting. He couldn’t believe he was in the “we have to talk” position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you… Let’s be each other’s emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.
— Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World
The Best Part Of Missing You Is, "I Recall Every Single Moment Spent With You."Bt The Worst Part Is,"I Miss You So Badly.
— mr. sid
I feel so grateful to discover that each new day brings me the opportunity to watch the sunrise and fall in love with you again.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you.
— Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf
Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn’t asked for and weren’t expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.
— Erin McCarthy, True
Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.
— Dennis E. Adonis
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
— Caleb Carr
Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
— Dennis E. Adonis
I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.
— K.L. Toth
Judging people based on what others say about them won't give us the opportunity to know them better.
— hanesa
Being in a relationship doesn’t mean that you never get aroused by anything else ever again. It just means that you don’t act on it. I think it’s healthy to maintain the ability to be aroused in other situations. Relationships shouldn’t be a prison.You’d have gotten hard before, and you should now. As long as you know that the only person you’re going to be sliding your big hard cock in to, we’re fine. There really is a happy medium between the craziness of your parents with their compulsion to continue having sex with anyone they wanted, and couples who expect one another to be perfect at all times with the idea that no feelings of sexuality outside of the relationship are acceptable. Both of those types of relationships would never work for me. What’s perfect for me is that we stay ourselves, and make each other truly happy
— Ella Fox, Broken Hart
I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.
— Kate Chisman, Creep
When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought!
— Argha
A woman should be mindful that the key to one man's heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.
— Dennis E. Adonis
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Legacy: Supreme leaders determine where generations are going and develop outstanding leaders they pass the baton to.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and society better.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Influence: It takes an influential leader to excellently raise up leaders of influence.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Successful Results: Renowned leaders strive for victory and outdo their previous successes, they do what it takes to recognize an opportunity and pounce on it rightly to achieve great results.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Development: Surpassing leaders progress advancely from a lower to a higher state of leadership through leading other leaders the right way.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Advancement: Notable leaders chart the course of action that causes other leaders to progress toward reaching a goal and raising the status of power.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Prosperity: Great leaders teach other leaders the infinite intelligence that enables them to have plenty of all things and live the good life.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
Your relationships with others are always a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Steps to Better Relationships: Find More Balance with Others
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Leading: Superlative leaders are fully equipped to deliver in destiny
—  they locate eternally assigned destines.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, The Sagacity of Sage
It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOOING your woman” should be a continuous process. It should NEVER end after you get your “yes” from her. If you did a lot to get her, you should do more to keep her.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Desire to give and not always receive.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Drown those degrading thoughts.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Build up your faith while starving the fears.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Ride higher in life unto the higher life.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Light is life and always wins.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sow the right words! Think the good thought.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Life is beautiful if you take the best option.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Have the best course for all your actions.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sow good seeds for a good yield.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Always contend for the good!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Shine forth your light before all beings.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Eschew evil and it`s machinations.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Relish what is good and expedient.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like that. But for some reason... The thought that someone other than you might kill me never occurred to me. (Makishima Shogo)
— Urobuchi Gen, 監視官 常守朱  1 [Kanshikan Akane Tsunemori]
One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.
— James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime
I don't do relationships because I don't want to love and lose myself.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off your heart.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
I hope you don't mind spending so much time with me," Jett said. "I promise to be good, and I won't be too hard on you." His tone oozed amusement as he added, "Unless you want me to.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.
— Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi
The way he looked at me, I felt as though he saw through my body and directly into my soul. No one had ever made me feel like that before. Then again, I had never met someone so electrically good-looking, but there's a first time for everything.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words
—  my love is lived as a verb.
To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.
— Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi
You see, in every story, it’s not about the ending. It’s about the chapters in between and how you make it through them
— Courtney Giardina, Tear Stained Beaches
In the harsh veracity of the real world, he was rich, successful, and one of the most desired bachelors in New York—and I was, well, me. A world I hoped wouldn’t tear us apart by pointing out just how different our lives were.“You’re probably eager to get home,” Jett whispered in my ear so the flight attendant serving coffee wouldn’t hear us, “but will you stay with me one more night? I’m not quite ready to let this go.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship
—  entitlement and expectation will poison it.
He was the bad boy type all right. The type my mother warned me about. the type you have a good time with, then forget about as you go home to live your boring life, while he moves on to the next skirt ready to give him the time of day.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
His eyes sparkled again, and in that instant I felt a strong urge to get up and leave him behind. I had been wrong to think what Sean and I had was special. He wasn’t ‘the one’. He couldn’t be. ‘The one’ would never leave me behind.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found at the root of innumerable acts of evil. The argument continues today, as to which religion the true god belongs, when what would be most healing and empowering is to free god from the shackles of religious limitation and judgment. It is by emancipating god from the ignorance of our ancestors that we become empowered to explore and express our own relationship with what god may or may not be.
— Steve Maraboli
In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
But what slayed Robert was that for all these years, all his adult life, he'd never believed in relationships and commitment. They were highly overrated as far as he was concerned. Some people's entire lives revolved around love...finding it, keeping it. People had written poetry about it, had sacrificed for it, had even died for it. And he'd never been able to understand why. Why would anyone want to invest themselves in such a fickle emotion that sounded too good to be true because it was too good to be true. When the going got tough, even when someone claimed to love and be committed to the people in their lives, they really only honored that commitment when things were good.
— M.L. Rhodes, Satisfaction
Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
His love is like an unquenchable fire and He refreshes with living waters. I thirst daily and go to the well to drink and be consumed
— Lori McPherson
Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Love is the centre of all the Emotions or feelings.
— Nikhil Yadav
Christ is in me...Christ is my life, this is why i live the higher life...and the reason why i am more than a conqueror!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I had sex with Jett because I was attracted to him. Jett hired me because he wanted me. It was lust at first sight.
— J.C. Reed
There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
If you believe someone believe blindly either you get a good relation or a good lesson
— Arun Kumar
Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.
— Danielle Steel, Second Chance
I’m a cold-hearted bastard. I’m insular, I’m jaded, a workaholic, I’m ruthless and I’m self-serving. I don’t do forever, I rarely even do “I’ll call you tomorrow”. And just because I’m here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.
— Ally Blake, Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")
— Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness
In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
— Kate Chisman
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
— John Steinbeck
If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.
— James     Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core.Love was the only language used
— You and I were the only characters.
I don’t like seeing you hit.”“Well, to be quite honest, I don’t like being hit unless it’s by you.” As soon as it was out of my mouth, I realized what I had said. “That sounded all sorts of wrong.”“Insanely so, actually.”“To be clear,” I said to any overhearing ears, “I hit him back--”“Hard.”“It’s a very give-and-take, non-abuse type hitting situation…”The sides of Liam’s mouth folded up like an accordion. “You should probably stop now.”“I’m trying. My mouth keeps moving of its own accord.
— Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs
Think before you speak, unless it's urgent
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.
— Nicholas. Sparks, The Choice
If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.
— Anthony Liccione
You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu
— Kate Chisman
To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.
— B.J. Neblett
We'd been so ... clueless that being in heat is not, by a long shot, the same as being in love, or that being in love is not, by a long shot, the same as loving.
— Molleen Zwiker, Unreliable
Well, then-“ Before I can finish his lips are on mine fervently and I return his kiss as our mouths move together in a slow rhythm. I wrap my arms around his neck tightly. He grasps my face between both of his warm hands, then pulls back to look at me.You don’t know how happy you just made me, Gracie. I love you. I fucking love you!Yes I do because it’s the same feeling you give me. I love you so much Carter and I want to move in with you and see you every day and wake up next to you every morning.
— Annie Brewer, Choices
The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.
— Darmie O-Lujon