#hip

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #conversation #during #had #last

...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. ↗

— John Irving

#relationships #friendship

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#criminal #eternal-life #freedom #freedom-of-speech-dissent #freedom-of-thought

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand. ↗

— Anne Robinson

#dream #hand #i #me #now

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#always #been #before #being #boro

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#age #around #because #coming #end

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#friends-to-lovers #love #realizations #relationships #sydney-sage

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? ↗

— Carl Rogers

#change #cure #early #growth #his

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#doing #even #good #help #leadership

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find above him the Creator. Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and an affliction. God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in His image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God's free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christianity #jesus #spiritual-friendships #the-cross #faith