Your private self must become the same as your public self.

How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it’s no great...

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.

When you’ve been around as long as me, Lucy, you’ll know that there are three types of sex… One – brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two – bedroom sex. Then number three – hallway sex, when you...

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there’s very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it’s not to keep her on her back, it’s to get her off his.

Biz erkekler, kalbimizi hızlandıran kadınların peşinden koşarız,ta ki kalp atışlarımızı durduracak olanla karşılaşanakadar. Sonrası yokuş aşağıdır, ne geri ne de ileri gidebiliriz.Sadece düşeriz.

And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn’t a need for a response. The words said it all.

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

Błogosławiony ten, co nie mając nic do powiedzenia, nie obleka tego faktu w słowa.

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was...

It’s the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.It’s what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I’m seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of...

If you don’t feel the same way about him, if you’re just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I’ve seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can’t get over...

Love is a flame. It’s when you get to know each other again. It’s the fights that will follow your first. It’s you finding another reason to fall in love with each other. It’s both...

Mr. Right’ is usually two or eight men.

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

I stood there on the corner of the street,I held on to your hand,I looked into your eyes,And all you responded with was,”move on

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It’s an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam! — they’d...

People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine...

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a...

The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another’s willingness to satisfy them,...

At the base level, it is about making connections and building relationships, but if you take the letters from networker out of the word COnNeCtworker, you are left with 4 letters. C. O. N. C....

Love alone is worthless. It cannot sustain a relationship … any relationship

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...