#relatio

I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more. ↗

— Catherine Sanderson

#settling-for-second-best #relationship

I have something very important to say to you, but I can't tell you what it is. It's a very important thing, but I'll tell you another time. ↗

— Rhona Cameron

#relationship

Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate. ↗

— TammyJo Eckhart

#romance #relationship

The Supreme cult does not bear any relationship with the ordinary course of life. The physical body, after attainment of the Supreme Cult will remain as it was before. It will feel pleasure and pain as it used to do. One must be earning his honest livelihood. It is only possible for a man without the least tinge of desire that ‘to see God is for the sake of seeing God’ and ‘to attain God is for the sake of attaining God’ only." - Sri Jibankrishna ↗

— Jibankrishna

#god #physical #supreme #relationship

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#love #marriage #relationships #relationships-love #respecting-others

The reason for my discomfort was simple. Our story - however romantic I could make it sound in my head - sometimes sounded a little tawdry in the re-telling. There was no escaping the fact that I'd been living with the father of my child when we met; that I'd cheated on him, then left; that what James and I now shared was born out of the ruins of another relationship. ↗

— Catherine Sanderson

#awkward-beginnings #relationship

She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will. ↗

— Pamela Morsi

#pamela-morsi #the-lovesick-cure #relationship

A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or should you begin in the present and make use of flashbacks only where necessary? ... If the material with which you want to open the story is from the character's deep past, then there has to be an important relationship between what has happened in the past and what is about to happen. In other words, is the material with which you open the story an arrow pointing toward the unified effect? ↗

— Julie Checkoway

#fiction-novel #fiction-writing #on-fiction #relationship

No more alone through the world's wilderness, Although I trod the paths of high intent, I journeyed now: no more companionless ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#relationship

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#relationship #technology #zen #relationship