- “i don’t mind if he’s already marriedbut if he isn’t marriedthen what the hell am i doingletting this soul of a dudewalk down the streets completely bloody singleout in the open like thatall vulnerable like thatfor just any woman’s charm to hook him like that” ― Malab, The Komorébi, The Breast Mountains Of All Time
- “That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn’t understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free.” ― David Gates
- “Soul Mates share complementary, compatible life goals and their spiritual natures are often in sync with ours. They also experience an immense level of comfort with each other that cannot be experienced in other relationships, and they complement each other in many ways through their strengths and weaknesses.” ― Aletheia Luna, Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships
- “It’s always hard to remember love – years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?” ― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
- “Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and preactice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.” ― bell hooks
- “In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he’s the CEO of Emotional Support.” ― Ariel Meadow Stallings, Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
- “عشقه که آدما ابله میکنه یا فقط ادمای احمق عاشق میشن؟” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
- Selfish people will never get to experience the joy of human connection. Carlos Del Valle
- “But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn’t see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.” ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
- “Life is what happens when you’re wasting time holding a grudge against people who aren’t spending a single moment thinking of you. ” ― Steve Maraboli
- “Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. – Ravi Zacharias’ brother” ― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
- “the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart” ― Jules Renard
- “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn’t necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust…. and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- “To My Unborn Daughter:”Do not compare his love to mine. Some standards cannot be reached.” ― Tyrone Takawira
- “It is not my shit, nor is it my problem. I am free and loving it! In that order!” ~Love is respect ♥~” ― Charlena E. Jackson, In Love With Blindfolds On
- “A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.” ― J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
- “A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard!” ― Natasha Ahmed
- “Here’s something I learned along the way: pay attention to whether a behavior is a pattern or an event. We all have really bad days, and we all do stupid things and hurt people. We just do. And if what’s getting under your skin is a negative event–meaning the behavior is out of character–then dip into your supply of grace and understanding, talk it out, and let it go. It’s what you’d want in return. But if what’s causing you pain is part of a negative pattern, if it’s something that keeps happening and no effort is put toward remedying the behavior, well, then you have a pretty grim decision to make: stay or walk away. (Walk away!)” ― Kristina Kuzmic, Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still
- “Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.” ― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
- “I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.” ― bell hooks, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
- “Don’t keep those people in your life who are completely negative in approach. Eventually these people will stress you out and be the source of your downfall.” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “These guys may not talk too much about relationships, but they sure do blush at telling moments, don’t they? Maybe that’s the key to understanding the opposite sex; I could invent a science, call it blushology.” ― Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland
- “We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “…he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity’s potential for building a better world, so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a hope….” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
- “And so I gotta be right about a relationship. Before I get too into it. When you think about it, that seems scary. Impossible.How do you meet that one exact person who’s right for you?” ― S.K. Ali
- “No man is worth the whole world.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan’s Tale
- “… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.” ― Steve Toltz
- “And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap… it drive me nuts sometimes… I want to kick them out immediately… I do now and then. But that doesn’t keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There’s something perverse about women… they’re all masochists at heart.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer