Sucessful Relationships Quotes & Sayings

Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners. — Tristan Taormino

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist. — Joseph DeRisi

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. — Alfred North Whitehead

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

I had a ritual - and having any ritual sounded so mature that I told everyone about it, even the regulars. On my days off I woke up late and went to the coffee shop and had a cappuccino and read. Then around five p.m., when the light was failing, I would take out a bottle of dry sherry and pour myself a glass, take out a jar of green olives, put on Miles Davis, and read the wine atlas. I didn't know why it felt so luxurious, but one day I realized that ritual was why I had moved to New York - to eat olives and get tipsy and read about Nebbiolo while the sun set. I had created a life that was bent in service to all my personal cravings. — Stephanie Danler

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it? — Andre Dubus

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us. — Jan Chipchase

Wow! So you're really smart, huh? This brilliant deduction was offered by a girl with a Marilyn Monroe voice who used glittery pens and wrote each letter of her name in a different color, surrounded by hearts and stars. I had dubbed her Sparkles. — Amy Harmon

Be the one you're competing against — Thabiso Monkoe

We all have that certain Gage at some point in our lives. — Melissa M. Futrell

It is not a case of you being inferior when you bow at your Dom's feet. The reality is your Dom only has the illusion of power. You are the one in control. You decide how far the scene will go. It is your gift to him or her. — Red Phoenix

Finally, therefore, remember your retreat into this little domain which is yourself, and above all be not disturbed nor on the rack, but be free and look at things as a man, a human being, a citizen, a creature that must die. — Marcus Aurelius

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see. — Bonnie St. John