#ship

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#failure-relationship #marriage #marriage-life #marriage-preparation #relationships-advice

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#inpsiration #leadership #success #leadership

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#difficulties #grief #hardships #holding-hands #life

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend! ↗

— Nesta Robert Marley

#friendship #life #song #friendship

The deeper you hate the longer you hurt ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#love #philosophy #relationships #wisdom #life

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. ↗

— Bruce Coville

#control #dictatorship #information #tyranny #information

Noel: A lot of people see friends as something you have on Twitter or Facebook or wherever. If someone wants to read your updates and you want to read their updates, then you’re friends. You don’t ever have to see each other. But that seems like a stupid definition to me. Roo: Yeah. Noel: Although on the other hand, rethink. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed” – because he likes you anyway. He’ll tolerate your junk. Roo: You have lots of friends. Noel: No, I don’t. Roo: You do. You know everyone at school. You get invited to parties. Noel: I get invited to parties, yeah. And I know people. But I don’t want their updates. Roo: Oh. Noel: And I sincerely doubt they want mine. Roo: I want your updates. Noel: I want your updates. (He looks down, bashfully.) I do. I want all your updates, Ruby. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#friendship #friendship

Our love is sharpened by the stone of our challenges and strengthened by the struggles of our growth. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#growth #happiness #life #love #relationships

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#friendship #friendship

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex. ↗

— John Lanchester

#men #relationships #sex #women #dating