#relatio

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked like, before the fire.' His request surprised me, but I did as he asked. With eyes closed, I projected the exact details of the painting I had poured my soul into. Just as I had experienced his love of surfing in a visceral way, he shared not just the visual beauty of my work, but the love and passion with which I had dedicated myself to it. 'Thank you. Now, it will never truly be gone.' I choked back a sob and went to Mr. K's office. ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#fantasy #love #paranormal #relationships #romance

And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#dysfunction #dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #dysfunctional-relationship #family

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#human-nature #relationships #spirituality #wisdom #art

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag. ↗

— Lee Child

#because #consequences #course #drag #having

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. ↗

— Frank Church

#covert #credibility #damage #free #free press

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#between #director #i #like #love

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city. ↗

— John Dykstra

#deny #end #first #girl #had

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#family-relationships #society #sociology #family

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#first #first step #people #pride #relationships

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#being #briefly #duty #find #first