The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others. . . and ourselves.
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.
Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.
Like anyone who has a relationship with Jesus knows, the coolest thing about it is that it's infinite how much you can learn and begin to understand. It's something that grabbed me.
& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect
There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.
I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight. "
I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.
Women can learn a lot about a guy because women, for the most part, want a guy to care about their feelings, to be a guy that is responsible. Women want to attract you, but they want you to know more how they feel. When a guy has a great relationship with a dog, it really says a lot about him.
I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.
But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.
In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
The one who loves least controls the relationship.