"No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!"
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"If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else."
"Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours."
"[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you"
"No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this."
"They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other."
"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."
"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given."
"I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover"
"I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up"
"The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other."
"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."
"At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument."
"The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character."
"We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems."
"You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you."
"If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times."
"We could not be happier."
"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
"What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime."