Love is not a fairground it needs no noise no sounds just the silence of your first kiss

The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that...

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

When we stop looking for someone to complete us… We find completion in ourselves.

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm...

In any relationship, the person who cares the least is the one with the most power.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart.

Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm,...

Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the...

My favorite thing you do is stop me in the middle of whatever I’m doing to tell me you love me.

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

She’s the kind of woman I could see myself spending the rest of my life with—after I turn 99.

life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain...

Though the world was hazy, all I could think about was love. And how I’d never had it. How I would never understand what it felt like to fall asleep knowing another person was thinking...

and…and…a gun. A big one.” – Colleen O’Brien

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their...

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been...

One of (Juan’s) friends told me that he thought he made a mistake and wanted to come back. I told him all he had to do was pick up the phone and ask me, and...

Tempers are temporary, but hateful and hurtful words can be remembered forever. Leave a legacy of love and say only kind things.

People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!

My wife loves me for me, and hates me for her.

I?m good friends with a lot of the guys. You develop good relationships and you hope that it takes you somewhere. I felt like I went away for two months on vacation to Dallas, and...

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village...

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

A sister should set her brother up with one of her friends, unless her only friend is her sister.

I run my household like a marathon. That’s 26.2 miles of me taking orders from my significant other, who has significantly more control over the relationship than I do.

There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son mighthave fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has...

U ovom društvu podjednako patimo svi, i žene i muškarci, samo su uloge podeljene, i to otprilike ovako: Kad mi patimo zbog žena, to je gotovo redovno zbog toga što žene nisu onakve kakve bismo...

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.

I’m a sex lover and fan of family reunions. Those two things are unrelated, just as all my sex partners are unrelated (at least to me).

Yes. Apparently they are.

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

My dad and I aren’t close, despite the fact that he’s standing in my shadow. My love for him must make him chilly.

When what you hear and what you see don’t match, trust your eyes.

During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others.During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others.

An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you’re doing, even if the other person isn’t doing it back. An unarticulated...

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

To get more liquids in my diet, I’ve started eating more soup and cereal. Anything that’s watered down, including my relationship.

Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say.

I’m impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, converting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and...

You can’t truly hate someone until you’ve cared about them. Until you’ve loved them.

Most women harbor dreams of a fairytale wedding and marriage. And while some do achieve it all, they are in the minority. For most of us the reality of living out our daily lives with...

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your...

The last thing she’d wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we’re though complication in her life already.

I’m sick of this. It’s like being twelve again, dealing with all this damned drama. I like her. Does she like me? What if she doesn’t like me?

Become what you would want to marry ,as in, become like the person that you would want to marry.

Once,” Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, “I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then...