Troubled Relationship Quotes - Page 2

• Things didn't work between the two of them, because they loved the same person. He loved her and she loved herself

  Ravinder Singh

  Love, Two, Persons

  Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.144, Penguin UK

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• Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
  but do not expect to reach the promised land
  without going through some wilderness together.

  Charlie W Shedd

  Heart, Land, Together

  Charlie W. Shedd (2012). “Letters to Karen: A Father's Advice On Keeping Love in Marriage”, p.130, Abingdon Press

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• But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Hate, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

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• It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Fighting, Keys, Self

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• We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship - we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

  Dimitri Simes

  Russia, Expectations, Different

  "Russian premier arrives in Washington to thaw Kosovo chill". www.cnn.com. July 26, 1999.

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• I have a troubled relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, not just because he kicked me out of a bar but also because it's become clear to me that he was not a good person.

  Andy Daly

  Hunters, Bars, Good Person

  "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.

  David D. Burns

  Stars, Stress, Air

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• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Daughter, Children, Giving

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• Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

  Toby Young

  Father, Down And, Knuckles

  "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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