Quotes About Relationships

I guess that's a sign of growing up: When your dad shuts up but you can hear him anyway.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships — certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

It has been said that a person's religion is best defined not by what he says what he believes but by what he actually does.Equally, it could be said that one's friends are simply those people with whom one spends one's life.Period.Anything else is a form of rationalization. Perhaps the criterion of 'People with whom one spends one's life is better reframed as people on whom one spends one's emotional energies.

And if you're going to go through your life and you have to associate with people, what you want to do is find egotistical people. Find out if they have a reason to justify their egos. if they can't, then get rid of them. If they do, then hang around them, because you might actually learn something.

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.

It's the family you choose that counts.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

I believe you, why not?' she finally said. 'Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance. You are no exception. In spite of everything.

After all,' added Sheala, pouting her lips, 'it's befallen all of us at some time. Each of us, sitting here, has been cheated, taken advantage of, and made a laughing stock of by some man, at some time.

I'm generally in favour of sex on the first date. In the future, I recommend it to you in every respect. It eliminates the necessity of any further rendezvous with the same person, which can be wearisome and time-consuming.

Non capisco perché non te ne vai, se stai così male con me." "Non voglio stare sola." "È tutto?" "È molto.

Uwa?aj na siebie. - Wol? uwa?a? na innych. To si? bardziej sprawdza na d?u?sz? met?.

Such double loyalty"—Geralt looked her in the eyes for the first time that evening—"is devilishly difficult to manage. Rarely does it succeed, Triss.

Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance.

Men like to see their former lovers again to reminisce about the good old times. They take pleasure in imagining that their bygone love affairs assure them a perpetual right of possession on their ex-partners. It's good for their self-esteem. You're no exception, apparently.

O amor tem vários nomes e a proximidade do convívio, mesmo grande ou não, é um assunto muito subjetivo.

So long, Geralt. Look after yourself." The witcher's smile was surly. "I prefer to look after others. It turns out better in the long run." From

Lytta Neyd byla žena, s níž by jenom absolutní pomatenec chtÄ›l navázat vztah na delÅ¡í dobu než na jednu dvÄ› noci. Je zajímavé, že právÄ› takovéto ženy neovladatelnÄ› pÃ…â"¢itahovaly zástupy muž? usilujících o mnohem delÅ¡í vztahy.

Though man can bend rods of steel, women will always bring him to heel.

Don't shout, Yen, don't be aggressive. And don't drag up that story from Vengerberg, we swore not to go back to it, after all. I don't bear a grudge against you, Yen, I'm not reproaching you, am I? I know you can't be judged by ordinary standards. And the fact that I'm saddened… the fact that I know I'm losing you… is cellular memory. The atavistic remnants of feelings in a mutant purged of emotion—