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"Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected."
"There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires"
"There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come."
"I felt it shelter to speak to you."
"You're still the one that I adore. Aint much out there to have feelings for."
"Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you."
"I realize I waited too long but please don't move on."
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
"The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust."
"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open."
"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
"There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love."
"The best proof of love is trust."
"A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart."
"I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in"
"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me."
"I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend."
"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
