#relationship

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#relationships #woman #inspirational

And yes, I say, I do like girls. I don't pursue them, though, and there are a lot of reasons for that. It's gotten me in trouble before, but I also think I have ridiculously high standards because the whole dating, fooling around thing seems so complicated. And not in a good way. I hate obligations, and if you want to be with a girl, it's like you're expected to do certain things. And do them a certain way. ↗

— Stephanie Kuehn

#relationship

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#friendship-true-and-loyal #relationship

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#disagreement #friends #friendship #relationship

Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn’t change who we were or what had happened. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#depression #family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk

I had a dream about you. We were babysitting for a family of mannequins, and we were arguing over what to feed them. You wanted to feed them organic food, but I said, “Why waste real food on fake people?” In the end you agreed, and we served them a genetically modified dinner.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#attachment #believe #believe-and-achieve #companions #companionship

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) ↗

— Norman Doidge

#death #ghosts #grief #healing-the-past #loss

If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #happiness #life #love #relationship

Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands nor baffle him with classically female sudden-onset hysterical behavior. ↗

— Valerie Frankel

#relationships #women #change