#relationships

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#against #anything #customs #extremes #films

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one. ↗

— S.B. Redd

#female-stalkers #fiction #intentions #relationships #romance

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It’s such a misnomer that ‘boyfriend’ and ‘girlfriend’ have the word ‘friend’ in them." "I don’t know, Dom. It’s screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can’t at least stay friends afterward. "Spoken by a true love virgin. ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#love #relationships #sex #equality

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#encouraged #facts #learners #relationships #themselves

Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#promiscuity #relationships #relationship

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. ↗

— Lisa Nicole Carson

#black #complexities #film #finally #portrayed

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#agree #bad #been #enjoy #getting