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What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself. ↗

— Rhonda Byrne

#love

Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off your heart. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#relationship #romance #story #love

This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union ↗

— Rollo May

#relationships #union #love

She didn't want me; she wanted all of me. I didn't mind saying it. My girlfriend scared the crap out of me. ↗

— T.J. Forrester

#relationships #love

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering. ↗

— Samuel R. Delany

#love #suffering #love

He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#power #relationship #vulnerable #love

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#black #devil #hell #hot #love

A real relationship doesn't properly begin until the NRE burns away. That's when you have to start dealing with this person as an all-around human being, replete with irritating little habits. When disillusion sets in, love can begin. ↗

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#polyamory #relationships #love

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man. ↗

— Arnold Haultain

#man #relationships #woman #love