Quotes About Relationships

Identify the source for all the opportunities, experiences, and relationships you appreciate. Your job, the life-changing trip you took last year, your home, your car—all of these came from a source who cares about you and is thoughtful toward you. The immediate source could be a person or a group of people, but ultimately the source of all these good things is God.

Beautiful women can be like dynamite," (I said to Paul.)… "Now, now. There's nothing wrong with dynamite if it's treated right," he said. It's the men who go around with lighted matches that cause the trouble. By that, I mean they've got their dicks hanging out of their trousers all the time. You can see how that can be a problem for the ladies?

the success of leaders will rise or fall based on the decisions they make about the people around them.

See, this is the other side of the coin. This is a girl's downfall. The guy goes soft in the head and starts talking to her like a moron and she wants to take care of him. He's just cuddly fool who can't make it without her.

Just bring some roses, then. Tell her you were wrong. But don't go into all sorts of promises about how you'll never do it again. Instead, tell her you've been thinking about how she must have felt when she saw that other girl hugging you. That way you can start her talking about her feelings. Then you've got to listen, hard. Let her know that her feelings are important to you. That's all she wanted from you in the first place.

And then there are the ex-girlfriends. They look incredible, every one of them.

That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow.

Sin embargo, no me arrepiento de nada y no me siento amargado. Solamente me pregunto qué diablos pasaba dentro de sus cerebros, dentro de sus corazones, en aquellos días cuando debíamos acercarnos más y más. ¿Por qué todas querían un Sutter distinto al que empezó a salir con ellas? ¿Por qué ahora soy amigo de todas ellas y siempre es divertido cuando nos encontramos? ¿Por qué les agrado a las chicas pero no me aman?

His wife isn't attractive in any official way, but she is beautiful. It's awesome when she shows up at the store—her face beams, his face beams, and I'm sure my face beams just from watching the two of them.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

Why are you so angry with your Duckling, harry? Don't you like it when I open my legs wide to you? Cross them over you - the way you like? What will you do when your little Duckling isn't there anymore to touch you with her soft fingertips, Harry, where you like it? First the left nipple and then the right. Your Duckling doesn't want to leave you, Harry." "Duckling..." "I need freedom sometimes, Harry.

She'd also been suffering from a painful sexually transmitted disease, given her by her husband.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

people, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.

Dreamline Questions: What are you good at? What could you be the best at? What makes you happy? What excites you? What makes you feel accomplished and good about yourself? What are you most proud of having accomplished in your life? Can you repeat this or further develop it? What do you enjoy sharing or experiencing with other people?

Love yourself . . . You've got to love yourself before you can love others. Without it, nothing productive is going to happen, and we can all bang our heads on the wall.

Exact numbers aren't needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world. It is often the case that you have to fire certain friends or retire from particular social circles to have the life you want. This isn't being mean; it is being practical. Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

One wrong person in your circle can destroy your whole future.

18. Notice how I take "you" out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it's implicit. "Normally, you make priorities clear" sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other, you can skip this formality, but never use "you always do X," which is just a fight starter.

love, be loved, and never stop learning—

If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.