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Maybe physical intimacy isn't always about touching. Maybe it's also about being able to sit next to someone at dinner and not care if he takes something off your plate or reaches across you for the salt. Maybe it's about being able to sprawl out on the floor and read a book in the same room with someone who's grading papers and muttering about 'incompetent boobs who couldn't write a good paper if their lives depended on it.' Maybe it's about sharing the same space with another person and not going fucking crazy because you can't get away from them.That's it, I guess: true intimacy is really just the run of the mill, day to day stuff that happens without thinking—thousands of simple, meaningless, comfortable ways you can be close to someone, never dreaming how shitty you'll feel when you wake up one morning with all of it gone.
— Bart Yates, Leave Myself Behind
I wanted her love she wanted mine. In the quest of expecting anddisappointing.The almost perfect relationship died.
— shivangi lavaniya
It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
...you couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted with a mental illness, it would be a sin for him to leave her, but a forgivable one. To stay would mean accepting a different kind of relationship, something not everyone was cut out for...'Division by Zero
— Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful sacred flower. Keep watering it, tend to the roots, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.
— Linda Hogan
Falling in love is a kind of wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
But like any friendship or relationship, everything starts off as a tiny sprout-or so my granny says. If you neglect or smother it, it will eventually wither. But when nurtured and cared for properly...it will bloom into something special.
— instantmiso, Where Tangents Meet
The regular I both feared and salivated to see was names Reyes Farrow. Where others exuded aggression, deception, and insecurity, he literally dripped confidence, sex, and power. Mostly sex.
— Darynda Jones, The Dirt on Ninth Grave
The most enduring relationship we can have, is the one we have with our self. It is the foundation of everything. Respect for self is the basis for self-love. Value and love yourself with dignity because YOU is the only one you've got. Embrace your strengths and weaknesses- they play a key part in your growth. Joy is important, so make time for yourself, and be your own best friend. You know that you can’t change your past but you can take charge of your present. Make peace with your past and keep moving forward. Your self depends on it!
— Angie karan
Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.
— Daniel Bates, When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness
It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him.
— Dominic Riccitello
The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.
— Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
I did exactly what you told me to do, Nick. Didn't you tell me to just write the stupid book already? And that even doing the worst thing on the planet had to count for something? Well I can't think of anything worse than what I'm about to do, which is why I think you deserve an explanation. And maybe after you read it you'll realize why I don't have the hope that you have. The truth is this: We begin and end alone.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
Look for Me. Long for Me. Experience unbroken companionship with Me.
— Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands
Oh God, what do we do?""Do?" Levi said, looking oddly triumphant, like his plans for the night had finally materialized, Like he had been hoping for some disaster like this to happen so he didn't have to be bored anymore. Like even a dying girl in his bathtub was better than calling his mother to confirm that his grandfather actually was dead, and that what he had heard on the answering machine wasn't a mere auditory hallucination. "We save her, of course.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
Love is likely when you appreciate someone in every moments of your heartbeat and expecting nothing in return. nothing at all.
— Ankur Bhardwaj
Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.
— Steve Maraboli
It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead.
— Kevin Focke
It's important to have quiet moments in your life, it's a time to listen to your inner self. Spending time alone with your self is quiet liberating. You can really re-discover yourself. I call it "ME" time. Invest time in knowing who you are. Spend time alone. Reflect, meditate, journal, sing, explore the world, walk, sit and listen the sounds of nature or the waves. Be with yourself. The most important relationship that you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
— Angie karan
It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.
— Dominic Riccitello
I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.
— Dominic Riccitello
I wanted to write you a love poemBut my heart feels out of tuneSo I coax my breath into the darkness of my rib cage And invite it to fan openMaybe I would say something like,"One day, I would like to fall in love with you,"And here I pause while the tears that have been threatening to rain down all day swell high in my chest, blurring my vision"One day, I would like to fall in love with you,"I will start writing again, & continue,"wherever you are, whoever you are, but in this moment, I will fall in love with me."My brow furls ever so slightly, because that is not what I expected to sayI pause again & allow the container to soften, for the edges to get blurryAnd the tears, one by one spill overAnd all the holding of the day crumples awayAnd I am me again & you are you again,too
— Bryonie Wise
You want to know what I loved about him? Everything. From a freckle on his ass down to his undying selfish need to always be right.
— Dominic Riccitello
I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing.
— Dominic Riccitello
I touched him. From brain to body, in ways I couldn’t quite understand. But he did and for him, that was all that mattered.
— Dominic Riccitello
When starting a relationship in Business or Personal Be in it to win it.Be present,be consistent and remind YOUR focus of your desire.~bns
— Bluenscottish
I worked with him in a way where there was no need to align. We felt and the feeling was simple but complex. It was the intensity in our grasp and when it was done, it was done.
— Dominic Riccitello
Just love others for what they are and not what you want them to be.
— Sanchita Pandey
Scribblings of love are on your heartSo you think you can find it anywhere...Darling please beware not everyone has your heart.
— Jasmine Sandozz
Is the diameter of your index finger equal to or greater than the diameter of a super absorbency tampon?
— Julie Cross, Return to Us
If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt. Once we cross the deepest part of hurt, it doesn’t hurt anymore. You become part of the eternal journey of love… no hurt, no worries, and one just prays for the wellbeing of other person —that’s true love for you. Innumerable poets and philosophers throughout history have tried to figure it out— partially or incompletely. Love is a destined journey.
— Sandhya Jane, Second Spring
Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You and Only You
Sometimes you are more comfortable with a person who gets close without coming close.
— Shampa Sharma
I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!
— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Listen my friend, if one person doesn’t want the relationship, then it’s simply not a fit. No sense trying to figure out why they don’t want it. No sense blaming it on their commitment issues. No sense waiting around for them to realize they wanted it after all. Because it doesn’t matter why they don’t want it. What matters is that you are met heart-on by a fully engaged partner. If they don’t want it, then you don’t want it, because you don’t want to be with someone who isn’t there for it fully.That’s the thing about love relationship— it’s an agreement that has to be signed by both souls. If one doesn’t sign, then nothing has been lost. If it’s not a fit for them, it’s not a fit for you either.
— Jeff  Brown
The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
You won't be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than you'd be able to lie or cheat or steal. It's built into you to do it right, so don't worry about it.""That's all very well for you to say, Mistress, Pol," he replied, "but if you don't mind, I will worry about it just a bit--privately of course.
— David Eddings, Enchanters' End Game
We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.
— Shane Eric Mathias, The Happiness Tree: Grow Your Happiness by Cultivating a Healthy, Creative and Purposeful Life
There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid
— Mia Sheridan, Grayson's Vow
Hiding your introversion is a bad idea because introversion itself is not a problem. It only causes problems if different needs affect factored into a burgeoning relationship and handled with respect and understanding. No doubt introversion-related issues will come up over time in a long-term relationship--healthy relationships are fluid and ever changing--but if you start out being honest with yourself and the other person, you will have built a foundation for later adaptation, compromise, and mutual comfort and happinesses.
— Sophia Dembling, Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After
Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
You are not sorry for what you did...you are only sorry for how it turned out for you.
— Ken Poirot
Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single.
— Kemi Sogunle
Love is more than feelings, yet feelings are important. Love is more than words, yet words are important.Love is a commitment to do, say and be the best you you can be for someone else.
— Manuela George-Izunwa
Trusted relationships are the essence of a brand
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be. With no effort or trying, just slowly finding each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hopethat things will go on and get better.
— Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.
— Dominic Riccitello
We’re gonna lie when the truth is hard? That’s how this relationship is going to work? All righty, then.
— Gena Showalter, The Harder You Fall
I learned that protecting someone by keeping him away from me doesn't shelter either of us. I learned that feeling other people's feelings for them doesn't bring us closer, it only separates me from myself and my needs. I always thought being codependent meant being too emotionally glued to someone; I didn't realize the way I was doing it was setting me adrift.
— Lisa Scottoline, Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
No one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men.
— Kristen Ashley, Wild Man
If you hate me, you only harm yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
- My love is about 2/3rds as invisible as her love, and that sort of transparency isn’t really all that healthy in a relationship. - I chop trees down with my sharpened mustache, remember? Cloning works, but can lead you in the wrong direction.-Jarod Kintz and Stefan D
— Stefan D
The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right
—  as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.
You make me feel at home in my own skin, and that is one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me.
— John Mark Green
I hear your voice, and all feels rightwith the world again.
— John Mark Green
I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience.
— Tara Sue Me, The Collar
Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win.
— Chris Marvel
Lady Linnea said,“I don’t think you understand the balance of relationships. They are give-and-take.Gemma is my best friend,Gemma has my loyalty because she’s earned it, and I have Gemma’s trust because I’ve earned it.”She tilted her head and studied Prince Toril with pursed lips. “It takes work to build a lasting relationship, My Lord. You cannot expect someone to give you their everything just because.” “I don’t think I understand,” Prince Toril said.Lady Linnea said, stopping their stroll down the hallway. “Allow me to rephrase it. A friendship is filled only with as much love as YOU give. Gemma has my heart because I chose to give it to her. And my choice paid off, because there is no one in this horrible, tattered world that I trust more than Gemma Kielland. And so we are two best friends, walking together to achieve what neither of us could do alone. Do you understand it now?
— K.M. Shea, Rumpelstiltskin
Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear
—  it is a transformed relationship with fear.
In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
There aren't many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Respect yourself enough to let go of someone who doesn’t see your worth.
— Robert Tew
She's in trouble, but I envy her.
— Denice Envall
Though we met at the same station,we were but passing trains;on parallel lines,destined to never meet.
— Timothy Joshua
Fulfilment does not mean our difficult emotions disappear
—  it means we change our relationship with them.
No relationship comes with a guarantee, but I’d rather fail with you than succeed with anyone else.
— Linda Morris, High Heat
Something about seeking love through social media that leaves us feeling empty. Seeking an embrace that can only be made by God leaves us fetching for attention in weak people and desolate places.
— Chris Marvel, Love Laws "Rules of Love and Relationship in the 21st Century
The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the more difficult to bridge.
— Ken Poirot
Don't lose the one who fights with you to be with you!
— HarryKrishna
Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep.
— Sneha Abraham
After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else!
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
I know the future will change and some things not come easy, others might leave our ways, but guess my heart is right and the beat is true because one thing will never change the Love between me and you.
Hurry up, before there's no more night left.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Live and learn not to take things so personal.
— Toni Wallace
In the end, what we gain is pain!
— HarryKrishna
Love Just Happens"Love just happensWhen you are not looking for it,Not paying attention,Unaware.You could miss it the first few times,But then, unexpectedly, Somehow this invisible magnetic energyPulls you and another person together.And you feel this beautiful magic,Like a gravitational force -As if the moon were kissing the sun.And their name,Becomes the most hypnotic nameAnd you die to see their eyesWhen you open yoursEvery time.Love just happensWhen you least expect itAt any locationAt any time.It never announces its arrivalBut when it does find youIts warmth is so strongIt may frighten youYou could close your eyes and feel itAnd feel themNo matter where you areOr they areEvery time.Love just happensAnd it happens to everybody.But some people have their sensors off,Or hide from it,Or constantly look for it.Just don't think about it.Open your heart and it will find you.It always does.Whenever you think it forgot about you,It will hit you.Just like that – Every time.Love just happens.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
How come love sounds so violent? You fall head over heels. You’re struck by Cupid’s arrow. You take the risk of having your heart broken. From an outside perspective, it sounds impossibly painful, not worth the trouble. And yet we do it every day. We keep coming back for more. Why? If it weren’t so perilous, maybe we wouldn’t crave it so much. Maybe it has to be brutal, in order to work. People come in so many shapes and sizes that it takes a bit of force in order to fit together perfectly. But you know what they say about a break that heals: it’s always stronger than before.
— Jodi Picoult, Off the Page
We had been texting for exactly thirteen minutes, asking random questions, trying to figure out if we knew any of the same people, or if we liked the same kind of music--the usual interview process you go through when you're trying to get the job as boyfriend.
— Jason Reynolds, The Boy in the Black Suit
I strongly believe it based on trust, we confide in each other. In my opinion when a girl feels loved, she blooms like a flower. He helps me overcome my fears, he is funny, we both accentuate each other life by just being kind and never ending the day without saying we love each other
— Jenelle Joanne Ramsami
It had been a shitty night, so it was fitting that it should end with rain.He closed his eyes and lay where he was, ready for it to stop. The rain, the cold, the pain, the aches, the blood choking the back of his throat, the metallic taste on his tongue. He wanted an off switch to his life; to get it over with. There wasn't much point fighting; he didn't have anything to fight for. He had his family and Levi, but something in his heart said that wasn't enough anymore.He didn't want to be alone.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
I don’t buy or sell relationships, so let’s talk business.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
Quin lay down next to me and buried his face in my neck. I felt everything hidden and heavy inside him collapse in my arms. His hot tears joined with mine."I need you.""I know," I answered.
— Ellery A. Kane, Prophecy
In love, a divine self manifest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I think probably one of the important things that mesmerize me is my RELATIONSHIP.Here comes the way how I narrate it as,The fabric enhances the beauty of the soul.I feel,The fabric of love, which will nurture from the depth of the heart&The fabric of celebration, which will cherish the occasion with wine and sweet words&The fabric of memories, which will mesmerizes our age and experience.I had all this desire to pursue my passion as,The fabric of wedding that embraces the fragrance of bliss in two souls&The fabric of tradition that exhibits beliefs and culture from one generation to the next&The fabric of surprise that fills the excitement in the ravishing family.It’s all about,A feel that nourish my emotions towards my heart& A feel that endeavors my passion towards my life& It’s THE FABRIC OF MY RELATIONSHIP that stays forever and enhances for generations.
— Yash
Tam let his hand drop to his neck and slowly circled his fingers around it. It was a free, gentle touch and Casen knew that if he asked him not to, he would remove his hand and nothing would change. He couldn't get the words out; it wasn't the touch he had a problem with, it was the far away look in Tam's eyes that said he wasn't in the room anymore. The look that suggested he was lying on the ground, as the rain fell in buckets and a stranger knelt over him, trying to keep him awake.Casen blinked and looked away, as the urge to cry for that lost look threatened.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
Most people can’t seem to see the relationship between truth, honesty and national development.
— Sunday Adelaja
Tam looked scared, swallowing and wrapping his hands around Casen's. He slowly cupped his wrists and pulled his hands away. Then he turned to the door and unlocked it.Casen expected to have it shut in his face or be told that he'd crossed a line. After all, he didn't know Tam and he'd stupidly given him an ultimatum after meeting just a few hours ago. What had he been thinking?“Are you coming in?” Tam asked quietly, staring at his hands as he twirled his key.Casen crossed the threshold and reminded himself he was lucky; he could so easily have been turned away. Yet, when he turned to apologise for presuming too much, Tam was right in front of him and the door was closed.Before he could ask what was running through his head, Tam cupped his face, lightly caressing his cheek. It was soft and tender, identical to the look in his eyes. It was too much; Casen closed his eyes and leaned into the touch, tentatively raising his own hand to hold Tam there.It wasn't a kiss, but it was damned close.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
— Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
You let this become a mess,” he cursed, as though he'd walked up to Tam and asked him to be drop dead gorgeous and vulnerable, just so that he would have his first guy crush.“I didn't let anything happen. I just…felt it. I think he feels it too,” he argued, trying to talk sense into him. Why was this a bad thing? Konnor didn't have anything to do with Tam anymore, so why did it matter?“Oh God. You're in serious shit now,” Mack bemoaned, rolling his eyes and rubbing his forehead.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
Grayson Dashwood.Those two words had just ruined what was turning into a good morning.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
He thought he could remove the Tam-façade that he put on, to convince people that he was bulletproof and strong. That was a lie, and if he expected to get through this break up, he would have to put that mask back on and toughen up.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.
— Kemi Sogunle
I don't understand how teens in this generation stress being in a relationship/love more than adults do about their future. She’s testing him to see if he's loyal, he’s testing her to see if she's after money. So, basically it’s a messed up-stressed-testing generation. Love has been blown so far out of proportion I reckon. The stress surrounding the single sentence ‘I love you’ is saddening. Relax!!! You're young! Your teen years are supposed to be fun. You have your whole lives ahead to find the right one. Just sit back, chill and live life the way it comes.
— Manasa Rao
My blood boils when I see people going back to the same person who hurt them like a million times.
— Manasa Rao
Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good.
— Manasa Rao
The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge.
— Manasa Rao
It must feel good to have someone trying so hard to keep you in any circumstances. I wish I have one too, at least I know how does it feels to have someone wanting you more than anything, other than making you cry alone in despair.
— Lee NR
To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never become emotional!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
If I cut you off, chances are that you gave me enough reasons to do it.
— Manasa Rao, Love was just a word
Tam let out a ragged breath, as he fought to reign his emotions back, while the realisation sank in.He was nothing. To Konnor. To Giovanni. To everyone.He was invisible.
— Elaine  White, Right Kind of Wrong
It hurts to let go, to say goodbye for the final time and remain distant in your closure, it may even tear your heart out to the point of insanity; but somehow in it all you find the pieces of your worth and you start creating yourself again, and in that journey of transformation you find the essence of what truly matters, inner happiness. It's life, we all fall at some stage but it's up to you, to decide how long you want to stay there.
— Nikki Rowe
So, here we are, all of us poor bewildered darlings, wandering adrift in a universe too big and too complex for us, clasping and ricochetting off other people too different and too perplexing for us, and seeking to satisfy myriad, shifting, vague needs and desires, both mean and exalted. And sometimes we mesh. Don
— Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups
The most important relationship in the world is the bond that you share with your own self. Are you comfortable being you or you’re always trying to be someone else? Are you able to live up to your own expectations or often end up feeling inadequate and incomplete? Are you being true to yourself and your dreams or you’re trying to live someone else’s definition of success? Those are some vital questions you’d have to answer to determine how you feel about yourself and your life. We often see the world as a reflection of who we are. When you’re cool and tranquil on the inside, you will echo the same peace in all your relationships. When you’re all messed up inside, your actions and reactions too will resonate your inner chaos. To have beautiful and worthy relationships, begin by having an honest and fulfilling relationship with yourself.
— Manprit Kaur
Embrace each other with love, smiles and warm hug.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Everything changes: situation, people, time, place and feelings too. There is no solution in complaining, but rather it is wise to accept the changes occurring around us and within us….When life keeps no other options for us, it’s better to move on.
— Purba Chakraborty, The Hidden Letters...
Don't let anyone or anything to dull your sparkle.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
You’re treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn’t operate that way.
— Susan May Warren, The Wonder of You
She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both ends of the timeline
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Do not say but show you care.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call--I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
I like the change then.” He held her hand again. “Change is inevitable and sometimes it is good.” He smiled.
— Sara Naveed, Undying Affinity
It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.
— Jennifer E. Smith, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Long distance relationship is like a dream,It can be SWEET,It can be SADandIt can also be a NIGHTMARE.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Never judge a situation merely with a negative perspective. Look at the positive side too,” he added. “And if you do that, you will eventually feel better.
— Sara Naveed, Undying Affinity
I don’t want to let you go. Not now. Not ever.” While she said this, tears streamed out of her eyes. “I’m here with you. Always,” he murmured softly against her hair. “I love you, Ahmar. I love you so much,” she whispered.
— Sara Naveed, Undying Affinity
I keep saying that i wish our black women would not stop raising their sons to be like the niggas who left them. I see mothers covering for their deadbeat sons, putting some other child's mother through the same shit, her babyfather put her through. We have spent the last few decades blaming absentee fathers for the lack of "graces" among our young men forgetting that they are raised by women. Women have always been other women's worst enemies. Maybe we need to start asking our mothers, what have they been doing wrong. Trying to smother the only man who won't leave them cause he can't, hes biologically linked to her. Trying to make up for the men who dumped her.Raising monstrous, spoiled brats and then unleashing them on the female population. What we have today is a culture of men raised like daughters who do not know how to be a partner, a man and a father.
— Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
If love wasn't blind,some people don't deserve anything
— Nayeem Khan
I am still trying and trying to exorcise youbut you cling to me like mud or bloodstains,like a battlefield fought in my imaginationevery day that I raise my pen against the swordyou used to slice my heart into small, bitter pieces.
— Miriam Joy, Broken Body Fragile Heart
God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business
— Sunday Adelaja
There are only so many hours in the day, and chances are that if you have a successful career it's your job that takes up most of them. As the economy flourishes are we in the grip of an emotional recession? Have we made our jobs the primary relationships in our lives, settling for a so-so boyfriend because that's all we have the time to either find or maintain?
— Jennifer Cox, Around the World in 80 Dates
The hardest part about moving on is — not looking back.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
If he aint tellin his boys about you, you aint the one.
— Genereux Philip
I'd rather risk screwing up with you than not even try.
— J. Kenner
You have to persistently pursue your love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.
— Christian Simamora, Marry Now, Sorry Later
I find out in a relationship each person should support each other
—  they should lift each other up.When the sadness come's they make sure to put smile on each other face. And that's the best thing to do.
I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, What Is Love? - A Collection of Poems
When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Relationship is like money, Hard to earn and easy lose.
— skumarsinha
The worst part of breakup is when you get out of a relationship and you don't recognize yourself because it changed you.It changed something of you.
— Redzel Romulo
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.
— Ayn Rand
I wonder what freezesthe flurry of hurt on her cold-flushed cheeks, if his touch isa salve or the shattering.
— Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
There is a big difference between being loved for who you are and being loved for the worldly things you bring in a relationship. A wise one would ask, 'What would happen if those things were to be gone?
When you go through a bad relationship and finally dust yourself off, there's a vulnerability that goes along with that.
— Redzel Romulo
Love isn’t in body to body contact nor is it in the emotions oozed through tears and weeps. Real love lies in soul to soul connection that you can feel through spiritual practices. Love is boundless and selflessness often we mistake with greedy contentment. Love is give and sacrifice
— Sadashivan Nair, Negative-Positive and We
What we contemplate here is more than ecological restoration; it is the restoration of relationship between plants and people. Scientists have made a dent in understanding how to put ecosystems back together, but our experiments focus on soil pH and hydrology—matter, to the exclusion of spirit. We might look to the Thanksgiving Address for guidance on weaving the two. We are dreaming of a time when the land might give thanks for the people.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first.
— David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.
— Dominic Riccitello
Every extramarital intimate relationship has a spiritual resonance, the consequences of which can be very severe.
— Sunday Adelaja
Relationship tiesheart of two souls eager to fly freely soaring to sky featsin full-fledged wingsunrestrained passionsto a realm in whichboth remain invisible.
— Rajesh Nanoo
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
Mutual understanding is the main backbone of every happy relationship.
Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
He wasn’t my boyfriend, but he was something. Someone who made a positive impact on my life regardless of the negative. He changed my perspective for the better and made me who I am in this very second. I appreciate, cherish, and thank him for it; and I will for this life and into any life that may come.
— Dominic Riccitello
Never expect someone to care for you or to care for your feelings and emotions, Everyone's fucking heartless, people just don't give a damn about your stupid feelings or your boring stories. People only know how to fool you around for their own benefits...
— Taimoor Madni
In order to improve our life for good always remember that regardless of what anyone else says and does, we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. This is the only way to experience victory, joy, and satisfaction every day of our lives.
— Donald Pillai
By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in.
— Igor Goldkind, Is She Available?
. . . but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, that discomposed her; for then people said he depended on her, when they must know that of the two he was infinitely the more important, and what she gave the world, in comparison with what he gave, negligible.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
So,” I said. “Exactly how long have the two of you been together? I assume that you’ve been going hot and heavy ever since that night at Fletcher’s house when the bounty hunters interrupted you. Am I right?”Finn and Bria didn’t look at me or each other.“Right,” Bria mumbled. “Although if it makes you uncomfortable—”“Then Gin’s just going to have to deal with it,” Finn cut her off.Bria stared at him in surprise.“What?” Finn said. “I worked too hard and too long to get you into my bed to just cut you loose now, cupcake.”Bria’s eyes narrowed. “Cupcake?”“Cupcake.” Finn grinned at her. “Or would you prefer snuggle bunny?”Bria’s hand drifted down to the gun on her leather belt, as though she wanted to pull it out and shoot Finn with it. Well, it was good to know I wasn’t the only one who occasionally had that reaction to him....Then I fixed them both with a hard stare. “Just don’t ask me to take sides when the two of you go at each other. Okay?”They nodded, then looked at each other. Finn waggled his eyebrows in a suggestive manner, and Bria snorted. But she couldn’t stop a grin from curving her lips.
— Jennifer Estep, Spider’s Revenge
If kindness wins, accountability rules.
— Galit Breen, Kindness Wins
Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.
— Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers
Without a relationship with God, it is not possible to have order in your life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Any woman can open her mouth and speak to a man. It takes a special woman to open her mouth and strengthen a man.
— C.L.  Brown
The heart of compromise is the willingness of all parties to sacrifice reciprocally and equally for the greater good of a relationship. Reconciling conflicting needs for the sake of unity can't work if just one person does it. A coerced compromise, when one partner deceives or overpowers the other without allowing room for shared truths, usually results in an empty agreement that's soon undermined by unilateral acting out.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
With you I feel like I'm already good enough; I only have to believe it. I can't lose you again.” He needed to make the confession because he was realising that Lachlan meant as much to him nowas he always had.“I know.” Lachlan smiled at him and stopped in their walk to draw him into his arms.Konnor went willingly, clinging onto him. This was exactly how they had said goodbye. It felt like the perfect way to make a promise to always be friends again.“I love you, Konnor,” Lachlan whispered in his ear.“I love you too. If I ever try to hurt you again, lock me up, shoot me, do whatever you have to do…but don't send me away,” he begged him never to separate them again.
— Elaine  White, The Other Side
A sensitivity is a true beauty of a woman
— Muhammad Anwar Jalil
Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.
— Robert Tew
Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen.
— Robert Tew
The person who doesn't value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.
— Robert Tew
Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!
— Robert Tew
If you cannot piece someone else's heart back to its original condition, don't dare to break it.
If your partner isn't bringing out the best in you, you're in the wrong relationship.
— Robert Tew
I don't want a relationship that just looks good on the outside. It's more important that it feels great on the inside.
— Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton
She’s all the blood I’ve ever shed. She’s every time I’ve ever thought of death. She’s every time I’ve ever looked at happiness and thought, ‘That’s not meant for me.
— Elijah Noble El, The Age of Recovery
May be we will meet again somewhere in future... With little less complications, little less worries, little less pain and a little smile on our faces remembering how stupid we were to take such decisions which kept us waiting for a happier day with little less complications, little less worries, little less pain and a little smile on our faces...
— Anamika Mishra
...it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.
— Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton
Whether you're the best lawyer...Or the greatest philosopher...There will alway be at least two people that you can never win any argument with...Your child...And your wife...So don't argue with them...Just love them...
— Nelson M. Lubao
Some won’t appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you’re appreciated and understood. –
— Robert Tew
Build a relationship with your inner self, you will never feel alone.
— Debasish Mridha
We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
First of all, it's friendship with God that makes possible friendship with one another in a manner that is not that we just like one another, but that were are joined by common judgments, by God, for the good of God's church. Such friendship occurs not by trying to be each other's friend, but by discovering you were engaged in common good work that is so determinative, you cannot live without one another. Now, if the church is that, it will talk about friendship in a way that avoids the superficiality of the language of relationship. Because relationships are meant to be spontaneous and short. Friendship, if it is the friendship of God, is to be characterized by fidelity in which you are even willing to tell the friend the truth. Which may mean you will risk the friendship. You need to be in that kind of community to survive the loneliness that threatens all of our souls.
— Stanley Hauerwas
It’s a lot harder to get someone out of your life than it is to let them in, so take your time!
— Robert Tew
Never place your happiness in someone else's hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness.
— Robert Tew
The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I moonlight as the greatest actor. I smile. I choose the comedy mask every time. I tell those who worry that I am fine, that I always will be. There is nothing to gain from these lies. I win no awards, yet I bow. On that stage I tell my life story with the lightest of words, the heaviest of hearts. I bleed for the people who stay and watch. Behold: the comedy, the tragedy. They smile and cheer. They clap for this. And I bow, and I bow, and I bow.
— Elijah Noble El, The Age of Recovery
Our actions and words built invaluable relationship.
— Kishore Bansal
It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.
— M. T. Panchal, Karma and Redemption
Never ever regret anything in life that made you smile in your past
— Anamika Mishra
You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?" (Simon)"It was a hundred and thirty years ago," (Magnus)"I haven't seen her since." (Magnus)"Why didn't you tell me?" (Alec)"Alexander, I've been alive for hundred of years. I've been with men, been with women -- with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." (Magnus) He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified."Too much information?" (Magnus)
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.
— Anthony Liccione
She The voices of your whisperThe images of your memoryThe Music of your LaughThe Portrait of your SmileAre dancing on my MindThe Love The Warmth of your BreathThe Sensation of your TouchThe Presence of your AbsenceAre my desireThe Knowledge of your MindThe Irony of your JokesThe Desire to reach your DreamA Fighter Are my QualificationBut that Girl is slip awayCease to exist Memories keep repeatingReminiscingDying
— Jhunmar Simila
Sometimes it's the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.
— Samuel E. Lowe
When the current reality creates conflict, distance is often a solution.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction.
— Stefan Molyneux