Relationship Quotes - Page 11

• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Cicely Tyson

  Men, Thinking, California

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• However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

  Francesca Annis

  Successful, Dating, Needs

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• It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

  Quentin Crisp

  Giving, Demand, Littles

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• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Self Esteem, Science, Evil

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  Octavio Paz

  Couple, Excellence, Return

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.53, Arcade Publishing

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• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  Mae West

  Women, Independent, Want

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Best Friend, Family

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• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Individual Happiness, Together

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.365, Macmillan

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• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Inspirational, Play

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• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

  Edward Thomas

  Love, Life, Missing Someone

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.150, Other Press, LLC

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• Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

  Alain de Botton

  Intimacy, Capacity, Findings

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

  Rita Rudner

  Children, Love You, Dating

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• The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

  Graham Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Letting Go, Running, Pain

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• If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Romantic, Confidence

  "Fictional character: Christopher Robin". "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I felt it shelter to speak to you.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Smile, Shelter

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.275, Courier Corporation

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• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Smile, Soulmate

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• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking Of You, Money, Years

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Marriage, Couple, Husband

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• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

  Rumi

  Love, Marriage, Being Yourself

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• Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Thinking, You Think You Know

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.137, Random House

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• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  Walter Benjamin

  Love, Friendship, Knowing

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• When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Stuff, Said, Dairy Queen

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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