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"I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes."
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves."
"One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves."
"I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line."
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."
"Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work."
"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another."
"Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do."
"Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."
"There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart."
"only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being."
"So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]"
"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."
"I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us."
"When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment."
"Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me."
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
"Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully."
"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."
"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
