But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
Some people build fences to keep people out...and other people build fences to keep people in.
No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relati…
— Osho, amazon.com
and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don’t phone don’t write don’t arrive
If I'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.
You know, sometimes when you’re too close to someone, it’s hard to see who they really are.
Remember, every relationship has its problems, but what makes it perfect is when you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, even when times are tough.
Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot talk, so I listen very well. I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another’s conversations constantly. It’s like being a passenger in yo…
The world is made up of too many girls wondering if they are pretty and too many boys too shy to tell them.
I want someone who will drink the other half of the bottle of wine so I don't. And someone to make it worth sitting down at an actual table to eat. I want someone who's dying to get home after a long day because I'm going to be there.
The longer you’re single — the longer you pause to understand yourself and to create your life with your mind’s paintbrush — the more likely your next relationship will be the last one you’ll ever need.
It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.
He told me he was afraid of commitment with thirteen tattoos on his body.
You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.
The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.
They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, because you’ve seen them, like, for real. And then you reach out, and suddenly they are just… gone. You thought you belonged together. You thought they were yours, but they’re not.
Together we are everything: strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle, beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak. We are good and evil. Like you.