Quotes About Relationships

Nonlinearities are important not only because they confound our expectations about the relationship between action and response. They are even more important because they change the relative strengths of feedback loops. They can flip a system from one mode of behavior to another.

Many of the interconnections in systems operate through the flow of information. Information holds systems together and plays a great role in determining how they operate.

The presence of stocks allows inflows and outflows to be independent of each other and temporarily out of balance with each other.

A system consists of elements, interconnections, and a purpose. Changing elements usually has the least effect on the system.

The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made. PART ONE System Structure and Behavior

Time together is so much more pleasant for the time apart.

It takes a man a while to get his head around the fact that"—she pinched her lips in thought, then nodded—"love makes you stronger, not weaker." She turned to her big brother. "Is that right, Simon?" "Yes, that's right.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will's arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.

Laughter and love make life worth living!

There is a saying that you learn how to love others through the love others show you—but what if no one showed you how? Recent findings from interpersonal biology show that early losses and chronic unpredictable stress alter the neurocircuitry of the young brain in ways that dramatically change our later ability to create and nurture successful, meaningful relationships.

Most psychologists agree that a child has to develop a secure attachment with at least one primary caregiver in order to learn how to effectively regulate her own emotions for the rest of her life, and in order to learn how to become attached in a healthy way in adult relationships.

Three McCrae weddings in less than a year," he commented, as if casually discussing the weather. Then he grinned. "Is it catching?

Hannah looked from Cooper to Kerry, then at both of them, before finally looking at Kerry. "Seriously, marry him before he wises up." "Hey," Kerry replied, mock wounded. "And why do you say that?" "You speak the same language." "Says the woman who communicates with her husband using old movie quotes that nobody gets but the two of you.

Why was it that, when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing? Commissario Guido Brunetti

Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person in the world he would not be embarrassed to tell just what it was he had been thinking about at that moment convinced him, though a thousand things had already done so, that this was the woman he wanted to marry, had to marry, would marry.

We never know them well. Do we?" "Who?" "Real people." "What do you mean, real people?" "As opposed to people in books," Paola explained. "They're the only ones we ever know well. Or know truly.

Variety is overrated, honey. Regardless of what your country club friends say, most women just want to find a decent guy who can inspire lust now and again.

Holy hell," she said to the empty room. How was she ever going to win an argument with a man that calmed her with orgasms?

Some relationships in life just seem to be inevitable and happen when they happen. I have never understood people who choose to spend their entire life being in denial about someone they love. I'd rather go through the divorce again than to not have you or Shane.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great writer. He said that a person never experiences the same kind of love twice. That means what we have with each other is not like anything either of us has had with anyone else. I like that idea.

Meaning?" Shane asked. "That I think it would be fun to put Brooke and Drake in a box and shake them up together to see what kind of noise they make," Michael suggested, giving in to his laughter.

He planted himself in front of April until her fiancé came around, then Leland kissed her like he owned her.