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"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relatio...

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"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships."

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every...

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There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We ta...

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She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapp...

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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back ...

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AberjhaniI Made My Boy Out of Poetry

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all ot...

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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth lik...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "l...

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People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have row...

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The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are neare...

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No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...

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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoye...

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

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet ...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and devia...

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we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are loo...

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Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with on...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had an...

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It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my a...

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My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with...

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Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spo...

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I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be...

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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...

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It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to...

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She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: wh...

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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't ev...

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We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being...

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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of a...

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They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automat...

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The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depa...

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He smiled as he imagined the composite Jamie/Isabel, who would play the bassoon, read philosophy, in...

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She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relat...

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Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that whic...

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I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion,...

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When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite convers...

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Alice WalkerHer Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

Asking for help with shame

Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.

Enlightenment is the transforming process that makes one kind, happy, and compassionate to the world...

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Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

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Amit RayWorld Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ta...

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She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noti...

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Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you wer...

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Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be...

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She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tat...

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What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen w...

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Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before G...

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The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but tha...

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Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she alm...

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Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be o...

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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Boundaries keep people out mine served only to keep me in.

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fea...

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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

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Anne TylerBack When We Were Grownups

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you'r...

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Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...

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It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the...

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A woman's weapon is her tongue.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistr...

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My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital i...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---...

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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could ...

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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...

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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the ...

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The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We di...

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Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

Black Mary: Leroy. And John. And Cujoe. And Sam. And Robert. One after the other they come and they ...

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When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

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One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is ...

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human bei...

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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be in...

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Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate...

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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being,...

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Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with...

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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to b...

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the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by pa...

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schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively.despite ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one wa...

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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintai...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not wo...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties a...

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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well...

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Bell hooksBreaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive...

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Bell hooksCommunion: The Female Search for Love

Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their re...

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