Relationships Quotes
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"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."
"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
"I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?"
"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
"I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning."
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
"If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale."
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
"Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with."
"Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us."
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
"I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?"
"Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive."
"I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?"
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said."
"People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility."
"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."
"Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up."
"For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first."
"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."
"Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be."
"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."
"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
"I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are."
"Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait."
"Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us."
"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."
"I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home."
"Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend."
"We kiss all the time."I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private.""A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.""A reminder of w-w-what?""That you were mine."
"Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing."
"Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn’t see your worth at the moment you met then he won’t two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be filled with his regrets and your life filled with thankfulness because of this revelation."
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."
"I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy."
"I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side."
"This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic."
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal."
"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."
"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
"I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves."
"If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind."
"I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one."
"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for."
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