It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
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It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily_x000D_ _x000D_ by saying nothing, doing nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ and being nothing.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
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