#hips

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#across #always #artistic #board #clues

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #confidence #inspiration #life #marriage

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it. ↗

— James Garner

#blockbusters #everybody #few #films #i

Nothing changes if nothing changes ↗

— Donna Barnes

#dating-advice #relationship-advice #relationships #change

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.
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— Jarod Kintz

#adoption #family #grandfathered #grandma #law

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected. ↗

— Rollo May

#change

But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#love #men #relationships #dating

A relationship between two people is made up, for the most part, of invisible things: memories, shared experiences, hopes and fears. When one person disappears, the other is left alone, as if holding a string with no kite. Memories can do a lot to sustain you, but the invisible stuff of the relationship is lost, even as unresolved issues remain: arguments never settled, kind words never uttered, things left un-said. They become like a splinter beneath the skin-unseen, but painful nevertheless. Until they're exposed, coping with the loss is impossible. ↗

— David Dosa

#inspirational #loss #relationships #death