#relatio

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change #common-ground #faith #love #loved-ones

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#completion #inspirational #love #relationships #inspirational

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#face #great #great britain #honestly #must

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

#angel #book #classroom #comes #descends

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#driven #extend #foreign #foreign policy #government

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#agree #companies #compete #does #everything

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#brussels #bush #days #few #i

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#build #countries #democratic #enjoy #good

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#broke #depression #devastated #done #fallen

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan