#relationship

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#accepting #back #demanding #even #expecting

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #books #create #form #i

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#concept #even #feeling #i #i can

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#does #exist #him #i #married

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#blocks #book #building #building blocks #chain

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#about #anybody #else #love #love is

Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#like #other #people #relationships #stealing

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#art #direction #great #great art #just

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#course #focused #god #had #her

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#been #cows #disease #get #gonna