#ships

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#i #normal #normal childhood #relationships #wanted

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration. ↗

— Mercer Reynolds

#business #business partner #company #exploration #formed

...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. ↗

— John Irving

#relationships #friendship

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#friends-to-lovers #love #realizations #relationships #sydney-sage

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find above him the Creator. Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and an affliction. God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in His image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God's free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christianity #jesus #spiritual-friendships #the-cross #faith

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#love #relationships #age

I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front. ↗

— David Rudisha

#because #championships #comes #fall #fast

If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life? ↗

— Ramani Durvasula

#inspirational #relationships #attitude

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendship #relationships #faith

Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know? ↗

— James Lusarde

#beauty #erotic-romance #erotica #infatuation #love