#elation

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#i #i am #life #like #lot

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#guys #i #making #movie #relationships

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to. ↗

— David Arquette

#always #end #i #i always #know

I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always. Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us. What's the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner." "Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," interrupted Scrooge's niece. Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamp-light. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#relationships #family

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#complicated #how #i #know #me

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#how #i #make #parents #relationship

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ↗

— Joan Baez

#easiest #hardest #kind #me #people

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#dates #flowers #fun #go #going