Human Relationships

“Human relationships always help us to carry on 

because they always presuppose further developments, a future - 

and also because we live as if our only task was 

precisely to have relationships with other people.”

~ Albert Camus

No Matter How Much You Love Someone

“No matter how much you love someone, 

you still want to have your own way.”

~ Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

If He Can't Handle You At Your Worst

“If he can't handle you at your worst 

then he does not deserve you at your best. 

Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, 

and instead seeing a person's soul.”

~ Shannon Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

Visionary Feminism

“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. 

It is rooted in the love of male and female beings, 

refusing to privilege one over the other. 

The soul of feminist politics is the commitment 

to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. 

Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. 

When men embrace feminist thinking and practice,

 which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. 

A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, 

from lovelessness to loving.”

~ Bell Hooks

Don't Spoil Me

“Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.”

~ T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: 

Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with 

"The Divine Presence"

Every Now And Then

“Every now and then, 

I’d meet a guy and think 

that we were getting along great, 

and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. 

Not only did he stop calling, 

but if I happened to bump into him 

sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. 

I didn’t understand it. 

I still don’t. 

And it bothered me. 

It hurt me. 

With time, it got harder and harder 

to keep blaming the guys, 

and I eventually came to the conclusion 

that there was something wrong with me. 

That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.”

~ Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

How Could You Love Us Being Together?

“How could you love us being together?" he asked me. 

"We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other 

and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love that?" 

So I told him "I know that we're not meant for each other, 

that we drive each other crazy, and that we are so different. 

But that's us. That's what we have; a wild nonsense. 

We are not good together, but together we are bad for each other. 

I love us together this way just like this. 

Because even if it's no good,

 it's what we have!

 It's us.”

~ C. JoyBell C.

Intimacy

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. 

We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. 

Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. 

Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? 

The one thing we can be certain of is that 

if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, 

we will not come out unaffected.”

~ Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Sometimes

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

~ Robert M. Drake

I Believe With All My Heart

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, 

that we are our own best friends and best company, 

and that if you're not right for yourself, 

it's impossible to be right for anyone.”

~ Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: 

One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, 

Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

He Knew Me

“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: 

the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

~ Justina Chen Headley

I've Heard

“I've heard that people stand in bad situations 

because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. 

It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. 

Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, 

and he will stay until he is boiled to death. 

Us frogs understand this.”

~ Deb Caletti, Stay

Be Sure

“Be sure it's your real self you're showing. 

Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.”

~ Daphne Rose Kingma, Finding True Love: 

The 4 Essential Keys to Bring You the Love of Your Life

If You Have The Woman You Love

“If you have the woman you love, 

what more do you need? 

Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.”

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. 

Specifically Ages 19-91.

Life

Life contains but two tragedies. 

One is not to get your heart’s desire; 

the other is to get it.”

~ Socrates