#relationship

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#change #nick-hornby #relationships #change

I realized that I don't want to try to change you in order to be with you. That's not fair to you. And I deserve to share my life with someone who's on the same path as me, and right now, that's not you. But I need you to know that you have been such a strength and a comfort to me when I had nothing and," I started to cry, "I love you so much. You truly are my best friend. I don't want to have to imagine my world without you in it. But if following my truth creates that, then know that I will always love you no matter what you choose to do with your life. ↗

— The Hippie

#relationship-quotes #self-esteem #true-to-yourself #change

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change. ↗

— Louise Glück

#men-and-women #parents #relationships #change

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#relationships #change

YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#change #parents #relationships #change

Tell me what you’re looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#freedom #murder #relationships #change

His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable. ↗

— David Ritz

#hate #instability #jewel-price #love #marvin-gaye

People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility. ↗

— Katja Millay

#love #relationships #responsibility #unconditional-love #love

Of course I can accept you for who you are. You are someone I need to change. ↗

— Randy Glasbergen

#relationships #change

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love. ↗

— Mike Mason

#marriage #relationships #change