#relationship

You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?' 'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.' Kristy and Macy; p.135 ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#relationship #truth #change

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #conversation #during #had #last

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

Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don't deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#partners #relationship #attitude

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#death #drown #freeze #freezing #funny

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. ↗

— William E. Simon

#american people #believe #causes #continue #everything

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #lifestyle #relationships #age

I’ll wipe a booger on your living room wall, not only to show I was there, but also to say thanks for having me over.
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— Jarod Kintz

#gratitude #humor #relationships #rude #thanks

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#age #cannibal #cannibalism #death #food

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #contentment #enjoyment #happiness #joy