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when you are in pain __ no one can feel this better than you .this is not a shame to be in emotional pain.you love someone or hate __ not in your hand . a part of life to going through pain. pain may cause silent killer of your health .what you must do _ focus on your pain .realizing helps . then you would feel at a point _you have to get out of it. then the moment you focus what can destruct your emotional pain .music ,screaming ,going out,writing, anything ,you may pick up. one last thing __ never lie to self. shoot direct question and answer to self . create hobbies .then focus on yourself. look how brilliant you are . how unique you are . then admit ,no power can hurt you so much that has nothing to do with your well being . now _ reject . start to reject . once you understand your pain, the cause , how to keep self safety , ___you are powerful to reject pain slowly .
— litymunshi
I am care free by nature but that doesn't mean that I am careless or that I care less. I simply pass on passive-aggressive. Why dodge bullets? This world is not a place for cowards. If we are going to shoot then let's freaking shoot straight. Energy is easily recognized and understood. I don't make time anymore for people that I have to interpret beyond what they say and what they are really saying. It's not my Aspie nature. It is my angel nature. I know every thing isn't always black or white, but I am so over engaging with people who are 50 shades of grey. Be real with me or be gone....because if we aren't Really present with others then we are disconnected anyway.
— Mishi McCoy
When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.
— Margaret Kennedy
It is unwise to think that marriage will bring an end to your emotional problems.
— Ugochi Oritsejolomisan
Success largely depends on the relationships you build along the journey.
— Jason T. Rogers
That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.
— Marie de France, The Lais of Marie de France
Their relationship must be all claws and blades: law and custom gave him a thousand types of power over {her}, while she had only the one, pointed firmly at his heart.
— Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide
There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work out. It knows when to say yes. It knows when to say no. It knows when to wait. It knows when something has finished. It knows when something has started. It knows when we have a responsibility to another person. It knows when the ties are untied. It will not betray us or another.
— Donna Goddard
(His WIFE, understanding everything, wants him to stay. MARVIN wants to go. Or MARVIN wants to stay. She wants him to go. Anyway, he's going.)
— William Finn, The Marvin Songs : Three One-Act Musicals
When you find your twin flame you also find your freedom, for there is nothing more exhilarating, wild and free than absolute soul love.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.
— Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea
But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all the right ingredients, in all the right amounts, and still there were no guarantees. Or perhaps they were like recipes, he pondered now, and the key to success was in finding the ingredients you had to remove, the components that turned all the others bitter, excessively salty, difficult to swallow; even too jarringly sweet. He had seen Greenie clarify butter, wash rice, devein shrimp, and meticulously snip the talons from artichoke leaves.
— Julia Glass, The Whole World Over
For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.
— Daniel Handler, All the Dirty Parts
When you tell the tale of how another person is from your perspective, you're making him or her into a character, a player in your own life story. This way of knowing does not bring you closer because it is really all about you.
— Kira Asatryan, Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships
One of the most troubling facts I have had to accept is that people are not all angel or all devil. They are both good and awful to varying degrees and in varying circumstances. On any given day, dependent upon the situation, you will be confronted by either the devil of a person or the angel of the same person or a curious mix of both. This means you can, and most likely will, love and hate the same individual alternately throughout your life. This truth I find painfully heartbreaking.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time with and the things we read. Yep. Relationships and reading.
— Todd Gongwer, Lead... for God's Sake!
A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.
— Martin Buber, I and Thou
Waiting is painful, testing and arduous. It makes us restless, but finally, when it rains after months of blazing heat, the feeling is too miraculous to capture in words.
— Purba Chakraborty, Canvas of a Mind
LoveHas a way of wiltingOr blossomingAt the strangest,Most unpredictable hour.This is how love is,An uncontrollable beastIn the form of a flower.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I've had orgasms lasting longer than our relationship.
— Ahmed Mostafa
You deserve someone who you don't mind sharing your world with—someone you can trust in it. You deserve someone that you don't have to second guess. You deserve someone you trust as much as you trust yourself. You deserve someone you can talk to and not have to talk over. You deserve someone who is worthy---someone who can love you the way you deserve to be loved. You deserve someone who will listen and not hold what you shared against you later. You deserve someone who makes you laugh. You deserve someone who makes you whole. You deserve someone who will make you smile every day.
— Terry a O'Neal
You should be with someone who you don't mind sharing your world with—someone you can trust in it. You should be with someone that you don't have to second guess. You should be with someone you trust as much as you trust yourself. You should be with someone you can talk to and not have to talk over. You should be with someone who is worthy---someone who can love you the way you deserve to be loved. You should be with someone who will listen and not hold what you shared against you later. You should be with someone who makes you laugh. You should be with someone who makes you whole. You deserve someone who will make you smile everyday.
— Terry a O'Neal
Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she'd met a kind and decent man who loved her.
— Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher
You choose who gets your attention, and you don’t have to give it to anyone who makes you feel like crap. Period.
— Scott Stabilele
Remember to tell those you love just how much you love them. Tell them why too. Let them know what a beautiful difference their presence makes in your life. Remind them they are unique and wonderful and important. And then toss in a kiss for good measure.
— Scott Stabile
Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown accustomed to my antisocial tendencies, who had not yet learned to expect me to say no, and stopped asking. I was invited to go drinking and dancing again, and so, I tried.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
He will talk about what "some other people said," and what he and "some other people did," and when he never specifically mentions women it will be like the Soviet news agency which never publicizes anything containing the names of the towns where the new bombs are.
— Lorrie Moore
We're not on the same page right now, but that's okay. Were still in the same story, and there's still so much more to be written. I won’t put down my pen if you won’t.
— Scott Stabile
My mind loves you so much it wants to own you. My heart loves you so much it wants to set you free.
— Scott Stabile
If I told you that I imagine love to be a two-way mirror, which side of the mirror would you imagine me standing on?
— Kris Kidd
Why spend your time fighting to make a damaging reality work? Be willing to move on from the people and situations that don't serve your heart. You are capable of creating relationships and circumstances rooted in respect, equality and love. But you have to believe you deserve them.
— Scott Stabile
to do list (after the breakup)1. take refuge in your bed2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a few days).3. don’t listen to slow songs.4. delete their number from your phone even though it is memorized on your fingertips.5. don’t look at old photos.6. find the closest ice cream shop and treat yourself to two scoops of mint chocolate chip. the mint will calm your heart. you deserve the chocolate.7. buy new bed sheets.8. collect all the gifts, t-shirts, and everything with their smell on it and drop it off at a donation center.9. plan a trip.10. perfect the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.11. start a new project.12. whatever you do. do not call.13. do not beg for what does not want to stay.14. stop crying at some point.15. allow yourself to feel foolish for believing you could’ve built the rest of your life in someone else’s stomach.16. breathe.
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
I don't get it, guys, I continued. I'd want to date me. Why is it so hard for me? I'm wicked fun, I dress nicely, I'm friendly... I'd love to date me. Wouldn't you?
— Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted
When I look at your smile, I can see your heart. When I look at your heart, it makes me smile back.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Sometimes, it is wise to let people go without any complaints. If they are a part of our destiny, they will return after a couple of seasons. Till then, let them dwell in the pages of our memories.
— Purba Chakraborty, Canvas of a Mind
He smiled as he imagined the composite Jamie/Isabel, who would play the bassoon, read philosophy, interfere in other people's affairs rather too much, drive a green Swedish car and make legendary potatoes Dauphinoise.
— Alexander McCall Smith, A Distant View of Everything
The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.
— Piper Payne
I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.
— Nora Roberts, The Obsession
A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.
— Roxane Gay, Difficult Women
I don't know how Jen and I became strangers in our own marriage, how we let something that should have brought us closer derail us like a couple of amateurs. We were two reasonably smart people in love with each other, and then, one day we were less so, and maybe we were headed here anyway, maybe she just got there first, because she felt the loss of our baby more acutely. For a moment, a feeling circles me, something approaching clarity, maybe even acceptance, but it fails to settle and ultimately dissipates.
— Tropper Jonathan
When Hate takes center stage you know you're watching the wrong show
— SteveFrmFL
You stayed because you’d invested so much time in your relationship that it would be a waste to walk away.
— A.L. Michael, Cocktails and Dreams
When someone rejects you, for whatever reason, that rejection reflects their wants, not your limitations. you are in no way defined by the rejection, or the acceptance, of anyone else. your worth depends on no one. and as hard as it can be to see it as such, there is just as big a gift in not connecting with those who don’t see your value, as there is in uniting with those who do.
— Scott Stabile
I will love you through everything. Can you do yourself the same honor?
— Scott Stabile
We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.
— Scott Stabile
We loved each other.We hurt each other.We left each other.Now we hate each other.Let’s not stop there.Let’s finally forgive each other.
— Scott Stabile
Will you ever stop needing to be right?Will I ever stop needing you to be?
— Scott Stabile
The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.
— Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat
Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.
— Scott Stabile
I’ve found a new kind of home in us, and I’m ready to move in for good.
— Scott Stabile
I do love you, but I can no longer wait for you to figure out how to love me in a way that makes us both feel good.
— Scott Stabile
A good starts with breakfast; no matter what I'm going through, a good breakfast with friends, family, or tribe helo me and others start the day right and better.a professional practice I follow as retaught to me by a mentor who was a 3 star general when he held the meeting until i and c others had a full breakfast. Good leadrrship and a lesson with kindness.
— Diana Kanecki
I love you, and I know you love me too.I’m just not sure that’s enough anymore.Don’t we both deserve more than this struggle?
— Scott Stabile
The more opposite to you, the more challenging your partner is to you. This person holds the key to all your lost parts.
— Adele Green in Can You See Me Naked: Grow in a conscious relationship
Most things are relative, but perspective is everything.
— Adele Green in Can You See Me Naked: Grow in a conscious relationship
It is not about the person who is right for you, but when you are ready to experience who you are through another.
— Adele Green in Can You See Me Naked: Grow in a conscious relationship
Does your partner represent God on earth for you?
— Adele Green in Can You See Me Naked: Grow in a conscious relationship
The fact was, it was safer to stay uninvolved. He was perfectly fine with emotions, so long as they belonged to other people. Oh, he tried relationships after Peg's death, for a while he really tried, but he couldn't bear to get closed ... [it was easier] to disconnect from that part of life and turn his back on love altogether.Easier to find what he needed in music.
— Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
Stop dwelling and wishing they'd see the light and treat you better. Instead, forgive yourself for keeping low standards, and love yourself enough to raise them.
— Steve Maraboli
RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is a mirror of our inner being. The entire universe is a manifestation of our own inner being. Man is the microcosm and the universe is the macrocosm. In our inner being, we are one with all.True relationships is to see ourselves in all beings and to see all beings in ourselves. The inner being is not only present in human beings, but it is also present in flowers, trees, animals, stones and the stars. The divine exists everywhere in nature. Once we realize this we will never feel alone. We find the communion of the heart everywhere.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Life changes completely when Love comes first.I don’t need to know you to love you. I’ll start by loving you and see what I come to know from there.
— Scott Stabile
If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can’t change other people.
— Scott Stabile
Being in a bad relationship is like trying to dance when you’re sad.
— Ron Baratono
Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")
— Erik Pevernagie
Marvel at how she,the patient gardener, the bringer of sleep,she who draws the bath and lights the candles,she who made you someone who could makehimself into someone, she made you wantto live more than anything else, and nowshe makes you want to leave the worldbecause you have seen it.
— Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days
I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes communication. A lot of it.We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers, and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched.And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange (and self-sabotaging) that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being.Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say.Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.
— Vironika Tugaleva
It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.
— Amit Howard
It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.
— John Williams, Stoner
The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal.
— Ugochi Oritsejolomisan
Don't ask too much for space. They grow into voids.
— Karishma Magvani
I warned her that her lover isthe Picture of Dorian Graybutin reverse.Instead of the portrait taking inthe uglinessand sinso he can be anddowhatever he wantsInsteadhe lets himself be uglyso the image can staypristine- Dorian Grey
— Abby Rosmarin, No One Reads Poetry: A Collection of Poems
Call Stella 'Trash Can Girl' again and I'll beat the h--- out of you. In fact, call her or anyone else anything ever again and I'll do the same. I'm done saying nothing. I'm done letting you treat people like crap. Do you hear me?
— Katie McGarry, Red at Night
We are in the era of dysfunctional relationships.
— Steven Magee
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— Amit Howard
Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.
— Amit Howard
Don’t stay because you think you can change him.You can’t change him.Maybe work on changing yourself so you don’t feel compelled to stay with menlike him in the first place.
— Scott Stabile
I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I may have wanted to, but beginning to write stories about people, I drew near slowly; noting and guessing, apprehending, hoping, drawing my eventual conclusions out of my own heart, I did venture closer to where I wanted to go.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.
— VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
He hadn't known her, didn't know her, of course. There wasn't the time.
— Alexander Freed, Rogue One - A Star Wars Story
I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.
— Scott Stabile
I forgive you, but I won’t forget what you did…not in some threatening, I don’t really forgive you kind of way… but just because what you did was shitty and really hurt me and I can’t imagine it suddenly disappearing from my memory. In a way, it’s even cooler that I’ll remember that shitty thing you did to me, and you’ll remember that shitty thing I did to you. That means we didn’t need to forget that we hurt each other in order to love each other still. We figured out a way to forgive each other, for real, and still be friends. How beautiful, yes? Let’s never forget that, either.
— Scott Stabile
She wished she liked him more.She wished she loved him less.
— Scott Stabile
Let's never stop holding each other's hands.We all need to have our hand held sometimes.
— Scott Stabile
Vulnerability supported by love is perhaps the most powerful catalyst for real connection.
— Scott Stabile
Our differences are beautiful, yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful differences that embody our improbable human reality.
— Scott Stabile
I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.
— Lisa Renee Jones, Being Me
And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again.
— Lisa Renee Jones, Being Me
She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.
— Kelly Moran, Benediction
She wasn't his girlfriend. She was his bubblegum girl--only fun until she lost her flavor.
— Jenny  Rosen, Cheater. Faker. Troublemaker.
Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don’t change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there’s no weakness in admitting it. Find people who want to be real, however that looks and feels, and who want you to be real, too. Find people who get that life is hard, and who get that life is also beautiful, and who aren’t afraid to honor both of those realities. Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind and body, and who take joy in your joy. Find people who love you, for real, and who accept you, for real. Just as you are. They’re out there, these people. Your tribe is waiting for you. Don’t stop searching until you find them.
— Scott Stabile
Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tallis is a beautiful and terrible thing. Fearsome and alluring. Just like the forest in many ways... but it's written all over that handsome, pale face of yours; you like her.
— C.E. Clayton, The Duality of Nature
It's so weird that adults in committed relationships have a problem with something so innocuous as flirting. I would never expect you to walk around with a paper bag over your head to avoid catching the eye of a stranger, nor would I discourage you making friendly conversation with whomever you might encounter during the day. And if you needed to fuck somebody else, we could talk about it. People change, our desires evolve, and it feels foolish to me to expect what you'll want two, five, or ten years from now will be exactly the same thing that fills you up today. I mean, the way I feel about fidelity has evolved over the last ten years of my life. It's a hard-and-fast rule that we don't apply to any other thing in our lives: YOU MUST LOVE THIS [SHOW/BOOK/FOOD/SHIRT] WITH UNWAVERING FERVOR FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE. Could you imagine being forced to listen to your favorite record from before your music tastes were refined for the rest of your life? Right now I'm pretty sure I could listen to Midnight Snack by HOMESHAKE for the rest of my life, but me ten years ago was really into acoustic Dave Matthews, and I'm not sure how I feel about that today. And yes, I am oversimplifying it, but really, if in seven years you want to have sex with the proverbial milkman, just let me know about it beforehand so I can hide my LaCroix and half eaten wedge of port salut. ('Milkmen' always eat all the good snacks.)
— Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.
— Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Love is always more than friendship.
— Will Advise
Her silence should be feared more than her words.
— Piper Payne
No Marriage Is Perfect. But every relationship has value!
— Rashika Roberts, How To Get Away With Marriage: Guide To Make it Work After "I Do"
I know the you who’s in the margins. I know you’re thinking hard about what you want and why– more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know you’ve tried harder to understand me than anyone has in a long time.
— Doug Dorst, S.
I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego turned itself into a virus. First it took over my mind, then my heart, and finally attempted to destroy my soul by corrupting me with fear and guilt. Therefore, with as much energy as I could gather, I trapped the ego within my anger and pulled it out of me. Once on the floor, the ego begged me for mercy and compassion, promising to give me joy in return. I allowed it once again into my life, and again, it tried to hurt me once more, this time with abandonment. So I unveiled the ego for what it truly was, and that was resentment filled with desire for power, a power the ego was feeding from me, from my compassion and willingness. Now unprotected by deceit, the ego shown itself weak and scared. In panic, it run from me, boasting a delusional victory. And when it looked back, searching for another chance, I stepped on it. But believe me, it hurt me far much more than it hurt the ego.
— Robin Sacredfire
After one my breakups, my former girlfriend said we have misunderstandings. We never had. It's just that I was living for the future while she was living for the tomorrow. I couldn't wait for someone unwilling to grow up and able to keep only short term promises.
— Robin Sacredfire
Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.
— Ben Marcus, Notable American Women
When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Art of Talking to Yourself
And then it hit me—I don’t have to participate in these toxic conversations.But if I choose to, I can set a different example. I can bring love to the moment, regardless of the response.I can choose to be kind, no matter what.My power lives in my love.
— Scott Stabile
There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine for some and poison for others. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I have learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... Seeds of knowledge that have been watered by tears and flowers of hope that are nourished by love... It's a garden of experience made beautiful by self acceptance... The insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow.
— Steve Maraboli
As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious of a great part of our movements. In order to take one single step, it seems, we displace an infinite number of muscles, and yet, thanks to this automatism, we are unaware of it. The same thing happens in our relations with other people.
— Alberto Moravia, Contempt
Calling bullshit on something thats exactly what you want to hear is certainly among life's bigger challenges
— Sara Eckel, It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single
Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!
— Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch
Nothin' baby. You just get close too quickly because you've got a big heart and you want a big love.
— Robert Winter, Every Breath You Take
The road to calmer relationships therefore isn’t necessarily about removing points of contention. It’s rather about assuming that they are going to happen and that they will inevitably require quite a lot of time and thought to address
— The School of Life, Relationships
One relationship didn't work out, but that doesn't mean relationships never work out. One single experience isn't representative of all of them.
— Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park
No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.
— Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park
I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
— Nico J. Genes
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.
— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
After years of breaking Rules and settling for random hookups, she finally meets a cute guy and after one kiss she has an aha! moment. She realizes that she does want a healthy loving relationship, not just a lot of texting and sex.
— Ellen Fein, Not Your Mother's Rules: The New Secrets for Dating
You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.
— Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary
Whether we are trying to buy a packet of chips or getting to know a person for a potentially important relationship, its nice to have an overview of what it/he/she contains. - Of A Sense of Self
— Amrita Sarkar
Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.
— Amor Towles
Find your flock and fly.
— Jennifer Coletta
I hate you, not because you broke my heart but because you broke my trust.
— G.K. Dutta
Worldly relationships are not true [are not real] it is a ‘business arrangement’. 
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don’t have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law...
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). Only the relationship with the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] is real. He has infinite compassion for you. He has become one with his soul [atma swaroop] and therefore he brings forth all your solutions (and liberates you).
— Dada Bhagwan
People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble.
— Dada Bhagwan
I believe there are no wrong decisions, just different consequences.
— Liimu McGill, The MomStar Manifesto
I believe that I can teach my children to follow their dreams by following my own.
— Liimu McGill, The MomStar Manifesto
How can I shut downIf you don't open up??
— Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relationships with a closed heart. How can one give love when the heart is closed?
— Val Uchendu
The best ones, are not the perfect ones.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Self-care is how you take your power back.
— Lalah Delia
Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.
— Weike Wang, Chemistry
You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin
My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It’s something you need to see for yourself.
— Maria La Serra, The Proverbial Mr. Universe
I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
In your search for love, be cautious. The miserable truth is that predators can be extraordinary fakers, and they are out there searching for their next victim. Look inside than the words they say to you. Try not to overlook warnings or any inclination you have that something is not exactly right.
— G.K. Dutta
Be kind for as much as you can, but when you feel your limits are being pushed, and the thing inside you begin to stir. Warn them once about it and if they still do not listen. Then, unleash the dragon they pinched.
— G.K. Dutta
Conflicts in relationships are as natural as breathing. While conflicts lead to healthy relationships, they can throttle us if they are not addressed at the appropriate time.
— Balroop Singh
Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning.
— F. Thomas Vincent
Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a touch, even a light and passing touch, reminded them of their long togetherness. A palm on a neck: it all flooded back. A head leaned upon a shoulder: the chemicals surged, the memory of love. At times, it was almost impossible to cross the distance between their bodies, to reach out. At times, it was impossible. Each new the feeling so well, in the silence of a darkened bedroom, looking at the same ceiling: If I could open my fingers, my heart's fingers could open.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
He would smile at her and welcome her home.
— Anthony Jay Cleveland, Roots of Faith
The modern world is filled with failed relationships.
— Steven Magee
We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.
— The School of Life, Relationships
What is your intention as you begin dating? Are you hoping to enter into another serious relationship right away? Exclusive or Open? Companion? Friend with benefits? You define this. Don’t let someone else define this for you.
— Staci Bartley, A Dose Of Love: Simple words of wisdom for creating more love and less fear in your relationships.
The person who completes your life, is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather, the person who made your life worth living -- no matter how long or short a time you are given to spend with them.
— Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds
If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren't neat and clean - they're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. If you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances, you don't hide behind them
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life
Nostalgia is the only acceptable form of sadness.
— Will Advise
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration--and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.
— Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil.
— Dada Bhagwan
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Do not respond to people being upset by confidently giving them advice on how to solve their problems
— Ezra Klein
It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not see you often enough, or for long enough, for you to grow bored, or to feel afraid that you were not feeling love---or worse, that you were. The perfection had a cost, which is that he was not in any true sense a real person. He was a coat you bought off the rack, an unsuperlative fashion statement.
— Ben Greenman, What He's Poised to Do: Stories
We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.
— The School of Life, Relationships
I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said, but that was part of what had been confusing her, that I would even have told her that, as if she weren't an actual human being with the freedom to act, but some character in a scenario in my head. There was a quality I had of making the people closest to me feel lonely, somehow. Some essential cold withholding at the core of myself.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.
— David Levithan
There are some people who may be good yet toxic for you, so be careful of who you surround yourself with.
— Gift Gugu Mona
One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
He looked at me thoughtfully, and smiled slowly, his green eyes warm. He smelled of the outdoors, he was so tall and broad shouldered and so ... male ... in this house of women he was shockingly different. All I could think of was how much I wanted to kiss him. I was clearly losing my mind.
— Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings
Positive relationships are those that leave you feeling energized after contact with a person. Even if the topic is unpleasant, the interaction itself leaves you with more energy.
— Elaine Seat, Playbook for Your Extraordinary Life: A Practical Guide to a Remarkable Life
To adore one has to yearn.
— Will Advise
Working with people feels uncertain, and that's why it takes courage to engage. You can follow all the rules, have good intentions, and still get burned.
— Elaine Seat, Playbook for Your Extraordinary Life: A Practical Guide to a Remarkable Life
I've tried to prepare my daughter for the phenomenon I've experienced of beautiful young women being dismissed and devalued as interchangeable. I tell Rachel that if a relationship doesn't make you feel good about yourself as an individual, then it's not right. My grandmother told me once years ago that if you're ever with somebody who you find embarrasses you in public or private, you're with the wrong person. Walk away.
— Kathleen Turner, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles
She felt him smile against her neck and bit down, the sensation sending shivers through her. “Bad girl. If you keep doing that, I’ll have you stripped and on your back before you can blink.
— Katherine McIntyre, Waking for Winter
A man is biologically incapable of giving ‘the look’.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
We're so afraid of being hurt that we become the abuser first.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
If it's public, it's not bonding.
— Will Advise
For much of my life I was not acquainted with what may seem the obscure derivation of the adjective 'sincere.' It is from two Latin words, sine, without, and cera, wax. What a rare thing it is to be treated without wax. My desire is always to conduct relationships based upon honest regard. As I sipped the last drops of beef tea I tried to enumerate moments stripped of pretense and all I could come up with was those efforts of mine, with brother-in-law, when he grasped my hand in desperate gratitude, unknowing, and allowed me to really see him. As I relived those moments of extremity, a strange thought met me unawares. Were I not to know him, or someone, some person, at this radical depth, I fear my time on earth would be hideous. I was surprised to think this. But it crossed my mind that to know others on a superficial level only is a desperate hell and life is worth living only if the veneer is stripped away, the polish, the wax, and we see the true grain of the other no matter how far less than perfect, even ugly, even savage at the heart.
— Louise Erdrich, Four Souls
Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Never end the relationship when emotionally charged.
— Latika Teotia
As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
She was the kindOf complicatedThat people got lost in;They all wanted to save her,But all she wantedWas love.
— Chris Mc Geown
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten- the secrets of married women by Carol Mason
— Anonymous
Because I had to sell it and lost a shit-ton of money the moment I realized you were going to be my neighbor if I stayed in my current place. Real talk, Rosie, you are all I ever wanted. Even when you wanted me to be with your sister. She was a comforting candle. You were the dazzling sun. I’d lived in the dark—for your selfish ass. And if you think I’m going to settle for something, you’re dead wrong. I am taking everything. We will have kids, Rose LeBlanc. We will have a wedding. And we will have joy and vacations and days where we just fuck and days where we just fight and days where we just live. Because this is life, Baby LeBlanc, and I love the fuck out of you, so I’m going to give you the best one there is. Got it?
— L.J. Shen, Ruckus
Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
— Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
You are aggressive", says the emotional abusive.
— Mark Brightlife
The ambivalent strategy involves clinging to the care-giver, often with excessive submissiveness, or adopting a role-reversal in which the care-giver is cared for rather than vice versa. Here feelings of anger at the rejection are most conspicuously subjected to defensive exclusion. Although these strategies have the function of maintaining attachment in the face of difficulties, a price has to be paid. The attachment patterns so established are clearly restricted and, if repeated in all relationships, will be maladaptive.
— Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.
— Lance Olsen, Theories of Forgetting
But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.
— Nicole  Williams, Mister Wrong
I need to make sense of it - to understand how I could care this much and why I can’t let go…
— Jennifer Elisabeth
A person's attachment status is a fundamental determinant of their relationships, and this is reflected in the way they feel about themselves and others. Neurotic patterns can be seen as originating here because, where core attachments are problematic, they will have a powerful influence on the way someone sees the world and their behaviour. Where there is a secure core state, a person feels good about themselves and their capacity to be effective and pursue their projects. Where the core state is insecure, defensive strategies come into play.
— Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.
— Donna Goddard, Waldmeer