#relationships

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close. ↗

— Rachel Machacek

#fear #relationships #dating

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#encouraged #facts #learners #relationships #themselves

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#creation #effective #familiar #into #new

Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#male-female-relationships #relationship

Value your friendship. Value your relationships. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#relationships #value #your

because in the past words have only driven them apart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#relationship

Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp when they should kiss and they're none too keen on having things shoved inside them... It's not a robot until you put a girl inside. Sometimes I feel like that. A junkyard the Company forgot to put a girl in. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#girls #industry #life #poetry #relationships

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. ↗

— Lisa Nicole Carson

#black #complexities #film #finally #portrayed

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion