#relationships

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven. ↗

— George Saunders

#girls #men-and-women #relationships #men

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#relationships #communication

Sex makes you stupid ↗

— Donna Barnes

#dating #relationships #sex #tips #dating

I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble’s neck. “Good boy,” I said. “Trusty steed. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #henry-whitmire #horseback-riding #horses #laura-anderson-kurk

Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating-relationships #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #love #meg-kavanagh

A COnNeCtworker is a networker that Considers Others’ Needs Continually. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#connecting #networking #relationships #business

At the base level, it is about making connections and building relationships, but if you take the letters from networker out of the word COnNeCtworker, you are left with 4 letters. C. O. N. C. Victor, we actually talked about this at Carina’s the other day with Sheila. C. O. N. C. stands for Considering Others’ Needs Continually. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#connectworker #connectworking #networking #relationships #business

Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#networking #relationships #business

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations. ↗

— Scott Adams

#change

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#people #relationships #change