Quotes About Relationships

It's not until a woman gets loose and comfortable inside her own skin that she's comfortable wrapping it around a man." Mina

code is prioritized above human interactions.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. —Gloria Swanson

I realized that in order to fully pass this threshold of the self-healing journey after narcissistic abuse, I had to surrender my ego's attachment to the false sense of security that I had created through isolation and not risking my heart in relationships.

We live in an era of horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy, husbandless wives and wifeless husbands. I have hit upon a formula which I am tempted to utilize hereafter when I meet husbandless women. When they are introduced I shall ask: - Shaken, Or taken? signifying in the first instance a loss by way of Nevada, or, in the second, through the pearlier gates of that Paradise which is the hope of us all.

On harvinaisempaa kuin uskoisikaan, että mies menee naimisiin Toisen naisen kanssa - edes vaimon kuoltua. Jos avioliitto on ollut hyvä, mies yhdistää Toisen naisen syyllisyydentunteisiinsa. Jos avioliitto on ollut huono, hän yhdistää Toisen naisen onnettomuuteensa. Ja ennen kaikkea - mieshän on tottunut ajattelemaan Toista naista jonkinlaisena täydentäjänä. Mieluummin hän nai jonkun, joka ei ole koskaan ollut mikään täydentäjä.

From the beginning, our relationship was formula for disaster. Depressed people often attract unhealthy relationships and inadvertently subject themselves and their already battered self-image, to additional abuse… You feel as if you are worthless so you attach yourself to someone who you think will give your life some meaning, be a safe harbor for your souls. But only you can protect what's inside.

We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn't he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?

Olivia made a face. "Piers is such an eldest brother!" she said. "He patronizes me. He's come up to town because my mother wrote about Toby and he thinks he ought to see him. Not wants to see him—ought. That's Piers for you!

That was the time for me to have said, "After all these years, is that what you think of me?" But I didn't. The moment passed. It passed as it had passed so many hundreds of times before, so many thousands of times before.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same

The weirdest stuff in the world is certainly to don't love and don't know how to love, that's why others can not be a reason to don't love

I want to say my apartment is no paradise for bachelorettes and would be more accurately described by terms like 'pain clinic', 'wound-care center', or 'half way house' for the chronically triggered, the emotionally dysregulated, the bright but broken-hearted, and a few repeat offenders of adulterous behavior.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Kakve su da su, žene su mudrije i bolje od muškaraca. To pred njima ne treba re?i, ali su muškarci glupi, sujetni, uobraženi, ne vrijede mnogo, me?u nama re?eno. I ?udo je kako nas žene trpe.

Ne želimo svjedoka za naše slabosti, a ako ih pred nekim krijemo, zašto bismo ga nazivali prijateljem?

My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.

George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant to show his utmost love for her. It made George wonder why love was suppose to be such a wonderful thing. As far as he could tell, love was just another excuse for causing pain.

Love makes you say stupid stuff, though I don't think it technically lowers your chances of a scholarship.

Conversation is food for the soul.