#relatio

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#marriage #relationships #life

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#relationships #life

It seems to me if you add music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life

A woman laughing is a woman conquered. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#life #relationship-advice #life

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— Socrates

#psychology #relationships #life

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#love #relationships #life

Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last. ↗

— Dory Hollander

#honesty #life #relationships #life

In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us. ↗

— John Grogan

#dogs #life #relationship #life

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#life

You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#love #relationships #life