#relatio

Every relationship is a tug of war, and I hope the scaffold wins. ↗

— Bauvard

#hanging #humor #power #relationships #tug-of-war

Talking about independence makes me wonder, Who is truly independent in this world? A farmer who grows food is dependent on a baker, a barber, a doctor, and so on. A doctor is dependent on other people of different professions in order to survive. I am dependent and will be dependent on certain caregivers and therapists. Those caregivers and therapists need people like me to earn their bread and butter and draw their salaries. So no one is doing any favors when choosing whatever his means of livelihood is. ↗

— Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

#independence #interdependence #interdependency #relationships #food

That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free. ↗

— David Gates

#relationships #whores #women #freedom

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? ↗

— George Eliot

#death #fellowship #love #marriage #memory

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#freedom #inner-man-and-woman #joy #life #love

I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase? ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#relationships #friendship

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love? ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#happiness #humor #love #relationships #romance

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#friends #friendships #inspirational #reflection #relationships

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#connection #continuity #disconnection #friendships #loneliness

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side. ♥ ↗

— Mikaela Tiu

#hate #life #love #relationship #friendship