#settle

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now. ↗

— Picabo Street

#been #best #best friend #decorating #friend

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#barrel #build #generation #gun #helmet

It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #reality #settle #change

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#everlasting-love #eye #false-love #heart #pain

The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my singleness: It’s not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say – they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation – yes, honey, okay, honey – is the same as concord. He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked. Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don’t land me in one of those relationships where we’re always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and ‘playfully’ scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about. Those awful if only relationships: This marriage would be great if only… and you sense the if only list is a lot longer than either of them realizes. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#marriage

Don't settle for being an option; become a priority. ↗

— Matt Mitchell

#advice-for-daily-living #believe #bravery #inspiration #love

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle. ↗

— Lee Scott

#done #i #i think #incorrect #obligation

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. ↗

— Lee Scott

#disproportionate #error #going #harm #made

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#decides #down #experience #film #had