#relatio

Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#networking #relationships #business

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#colonialism #enterprise #foreign-aid #international-politics #international-relations

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations. ↗

— Scott Adams

#change

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#people #relationships #change

Love falls in love with love; comes like an echo sounding back, searches its mirrored shadow within a look. ↗

— Mocco Wollert

#lovers #loving-words #of-loving #relationships #sensuality

Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#relationships #love

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat. ↗

— Laura Pedersen

#politics #relationships #sarcasm #usa #love

I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand. -- Gayle Windham ↗

— Grace Burrowes

#relationships #love

But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#relationship #love

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish. ↗

— James Salter

#life #love #relationship #faith