When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and...

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your...

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time!

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

It turns out that you don’t end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

Would you invest your money in a company that ALWAYS showed a loss? Then why invest your heart in someone that has no intention of buying it? Renting my heart is not an option.

When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the...

Relationships are a development and a dance between our inner male and female sides. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, destructivity and a separation from life. A one-sided development of...

Oh, you know. Jace reminds me of an old boyfriend. Some guys look at you like they want sex. Jace looks at you like you’ve already had sex, it was great, and now you’re just...

Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it...

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

Don’t expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.

Women and cars are alike. Once they start giving you problems, get rid of them.

Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.

If you find a man who trusts you, who isn’t afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and...

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex “knowing”. Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He’d known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.

Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp.

No, I don’t think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don’t accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I’d have...

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.

If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.

Friendship is the underlying element, the common denominator of every relationship.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

A relationship between two people is made up, for the most part, of invisible things: memories, shared experiences, hopes and fears. When one person disappears, the other is left alone, as if holding a string...

If you cannot value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches...

Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we’re connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches...

He could totally be your boyfriend,” [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. “You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.””I’m only a kid!” I shrieked....

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist...

I feel dead inside anyway. Cara made me feel alive. Maybe that’s why I can’t let her go. I don’t want to feel dead anymore. What I think is, I need a way to feel...

It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal

His name is Arnold. But you’re not on a first name basis with him, and that’s not his first name. So that’s Mr. Arnold to you. Once you get to know him, he may let...

A relationship doesn’t define you. You define you.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

Even before we met and long after we’re both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I’m forever and ever in love with you.

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Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than...

The goodbad news is she only stole half. The badgood news is she stole half. And when it’s love that’s been stolen, a hole the size of half your heart feels like the whole thing...

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Snow is not microwave friendly. In fact, snow is not too friendly at all, unless you first buy it a few beers. Then it’s just downright slutty.