It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Girls are like birds they fly with you but nest elsewhere

you gotta stay with him because he needs you and he has been your husband for 20 years for heaven sakes. You just have to work to love him more and so on.” This is...

Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.

I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn’t talk much. I watched this...

From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren’t any other people there wouldn’t be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only...

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of...

Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart.

Because she hides. She doesn’t realize it, I don’t think, but she hides. Sometimes right in front of you. She can be sitting across from you at a table in a nice dining room somewhere...

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and...

Relationships program our minds as to what is and isn’t an acceptable way to be treated.

The power to give everything or take it all away is the inborn power contained in every confident woman’s grasp – the only way for a man to regain that power, is to keep her...

Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression.

The days I’d passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.The atmosphere of the station brought it all back. I could see myself running...

Don’t date anyone you can’t see yourself marrying.

He seems to be supporting her tenderly. But what holds them together is difficult to pin down.In her memoir, she wrote that he once dropped her on her hip very painfully, and she had the...

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town’s true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person...

To see love is to see the dawn in a moonless sky without opening your eyes.

I think the reason why people’s relationships fail, really, is due to the fact that people are always putting their best feet forward all the time and not letting others actually “meet” them. The “meeting”...

Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that’s one sided isn’t one; it’s a one way street headed in one direction… nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.

Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn’t known a single guy who hadn’t confused her to the point of screaming?

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.

Keep a list, either on paper or in your smartphone, of the things you promise to do for people. Be sure to follow through in a timely manner.

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach...

TODAY, I can choose what affects me, to not be afraid, to not let this break-up depress me, to look at mistakes as learning experiences, to be happy, to feel loved, TODAY I can choose….

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that’s not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. ....

Stop living within the confines of how others define you! You weren’t created to live their life; you were created to live yours – so LIVE it! You can reignite that fire within and bring...

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can’t be what I need you to, & I don’t know why I fuck with you

Her love… so unconditional, so unapologetic; reminds me that I am worth so much more than the standard I have set for myself.

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to...

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

I’d love to be tried out,’ I said, with a suggestive smile. ‘One should always explore something, before one goes in deeper.’I saw a little flicker of fun in his eyes.

Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.

A woman being able to make a man genuinely laugh leaves a much better impression on him than a woman who wants them to feel like she is nothing more than a sex object… believe...

People don’t get to our ages without having pasts. I’m more interested in the future.

Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention.

She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn’t think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous...

I had a dream about you; you sat at the end of this long road field with things trying to keep me from you. You cheered me on as I became closer to you.

I want to sprint into her open arms, but I run as fast as two shoes tied together and thrown over a telephone wire. I’m like Roger Bannister, now that he’s in a wheelchair.

The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really should insist Julie come work, She could use the help, plus it would mean extra mother-daughter time–and, Zel...

Flower coffee—less caffeinated, more romantic. I wanted to be with her, but when I was, I felt like I’d rather wither.

The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.