#ps

To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose. ↗

— Mark David Henderson

#politics #relationships #sociology #world-views #relationship

Here are five rules of thumb, should all your fingers on one hand turn into thumbs and you decide to rule them. 1. There is no day too dull, no problem too great that cannot be fixed with a couple of plays of 'rush rush' by Paula Abdul. 2. The amount of time it takes for you to get over him is exactly the same amount of time it will take for him to start missing you. 3. Talking about exercise burns exactly the same amount of calories as doing exercise. 4. 'When someone asks you if you are a god, you say YES!' 5. The office sucks. Four of these are true. And one - is wrong! Damn wrong! ↗

— Hadley Freeman

#relationships #work #relationship

He realized with sudden clarity that the power axis in a conflict shifted once your adversary had heard you plead for divine intervention while her hands and mouth and body brought you to screaming climax on her kitchen table. ↗

— Barbara Falkenrath

#humor-relationships #romance #relationship

Women destroy me. I allow them to. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#infidelity #machismo #male-and-female-relationships #masculinity #weakness

[S]isters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would. ↗

— Isabella Macdonald Alden

#relationships #siblings #sisters #relationship

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society. One way of describing his work is to say that he makes us recognize that the unconscious is not some kind of seething, tumultuous, private region ‘inside’ us, but an effect of our relations with one another. The unconscious is, so to speak, ‘outside’ rather than ‘within’ us — or rather it exists ‘between’ us, as our relationships do. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#language #psychoanalysis #social #unconscious #relationship

The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#coming-out #homosexuality #relationships #the-closet #wh-auden

I have to be on the top of my game if I am going to kill things for you, right?" -Ash ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#relationship

Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. ↗

— Ted Rubin author of Return on Relationship

#relationship

Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn situation. I learn about you and you learn about me. And we learn from each other. ↗

— Ted Rubin author of Return on Relationship

#winning #relationship