We don’t need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.
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Quotes tagged ‘Relationship’
Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.
For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.
We were not lovers, we were love.
Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery — It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn’t blow it.
I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is – The thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming you just want who your heart beats for.
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end, you ignore it all and click ‘I agree’.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.
I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.
It’s strange, isn’t it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it’s too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there’s no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we’re no…
One day you will need someone like air and someone will be like the air you need.
Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the…
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.
The longer you have them, the stronger the bond. It's the same with any object, really.
I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
The more I live the more I think two people together is a miracle.