#relationships

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now. ↗

— John Green

#relationships #teenagers #experience

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#spirituality #experience

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you. ↗

— Gayle Roper

#marriage #relationships #woman #life

You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cheat #cheated #cheating #future #happiness

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#entitlement #gratitude #inspirational #motivational #relationships

Polyamory is differentiable from some other forms of nonmonogamy (including adultery) in that it is future-oriented. Poly relationships are not located solely in the moment, but have intentions (though perhaps tacit and vaguely defined) of at least adding to a base of experience possibly so far as signifying a life-long and emotionally attached commitment. ↗

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#polyamory #relationships #experience

Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable...for us, forever just won’t do. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#immeasurable #inspirational #love #relationships #soul-mate

Our past gives us the experience and perspective to embrace today and plan for tomorrow ↗

— Levett & Pia Washington

#motivational #relationships #experience

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? ↗

— Mary Manin Morrissey

#life #moving-on #relationships #life

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#desire #disappointment #meditation #objectification #relationships