I can see that the sadness has returned. And it’s not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

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...

If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t...

I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really start worrying.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up...

A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.

Love…who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

Stop fishing for deep sea perch in a pond, because when you reel in gold fish, you’ll only end up disappointed. In time the thrill of catching will wear off, and then you’ll realise it’s...

From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women’s unique talents–their genius for ‘relationships.’pg vii

Kulaklarla duyulmaz bir kadınınçığlıkları, öğreneceğim. Bir kadını ancak onu öyle üzdüktensonra, yok olmanın huzurunda kıvranan bir erkeğin yüreği duyabilir.

You don’t need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the...

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”...

Remember. It’s called a soulmate. Not an egomate. Not a walletmate. Not a lustmate.

A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to take your time and make sure that it is a wise choice before making a commitment.

You get lonely, is what it is. A person’s not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It’s not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you...

Love; I consider true love happens once in a lifetime. I really don’t understand when people love someone and marry someone else. Either they never loved anyone at first place or they befool themselves by...

Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy.

being together… it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We’d result to train wrecks. We’d cause whirlwinds. We’d start wildfires.

A love triangle is a threesome delayed.

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.

Being single doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means that you’re strong enough to wait for the right person.

I had a dream that I had no haters…I woke up missing them.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely...

When you begin with the premise “I treat everyone equally,” you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don’t, or can’t, or shouldn’t. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they...

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

My mother calls it the pretty hate.It comes on you like a fever when someone you love up and leaves you with nothing but silence. You turn the hate on yourself as you cannibalize your...

Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken… So be your self! Speak your truth – if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that...

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of...

To be in love at my age would mean not to have learnt anything at all.

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don’t allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies . . . I’m not asking you to cut people out of...

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you...

I’m extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.

Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?