#relations

Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality, you’re showing how much you still care. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#betrayal #bickering #breakups #divorce #fights

You're only significant relationship of the last decade has been with a married man. Don't you want to be loved, don't you want someone to care about you, to actually give a shit about whether you've had a bad day? ↗

— Eleanor Prescott

#art

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. ↗

— Friedrich List

#develop #did #exits #fullest #i

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts. ↗

— Larry Duberstein

#friendship #ideal-relationship #love #lovers #relationships

Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never “bite” or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she’s terribly guilty—of something, anything, who knows what? ↗

— Susan Cain

#conflict #relationships #anger

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#also #always #become #forget #inspired

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#marriage #relationships #age

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves. ↗

— Destiny Allison

#destiny-allison #relationship #shaping-destiny #art

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them. ↗

— Angie Martinez

#because #chose #i #me #people