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.
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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.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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