Quotes of: Monogamous-relationship Keyword

At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever I stood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman.

Stepping Stones

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

Solitude: A Return to the Self

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we c...

Scar Tissue

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Travels With My Aunt

Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity—a bookish triumvirate.

The Twenty-Five Deeds of Hanson Drake

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

Well then..." I clear my throat once. "You are a fantastic actor," I say, breathless, and emotionally drugged up on Mr. Sexdorable.

Our Totally, Ridiculous, Made-up Christmas Relationship

Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Phoning Home: Essays

There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go? Hide or shine?

Pretty Hate

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Phantastes

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

The Parents' Guide to Raising CEO Kids

The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

Prescription for Peace: Sixty-Second Readings to Help You Build a Better Life

Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.

The Problem of Pain

You don't your way to a new way of living. You your way to a new way of thinking.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

Pieces of White Shell

In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition