#relations

...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. ↗

— John Irving

#relationships #friendship

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own? ↗

— Kage Baker

#life

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendship #relationships #faith

It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#male-and-female #male-thinking #maleness #men #men-and-women

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. ↗

— Diane Lane

#day-in #day-out #how #i #kind

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