#relationships

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community. ↗

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#equality #relationships #equality

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#relationships #equality

Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present. ↗

— steinbeck

#solitude #time #equality

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#openness #relationships #experience

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #love #men #relationships

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #mistakes #relationships #dating

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-quotes #love #mysticism #passion #poetry

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#relationships #experience

I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead. ↗

— Sandra Steffen

#life #love #relationships #faith