Relationships

“Cuando uno admite sus miedos y que la vida no es eterna, la confianza puede renacer de esta vulnerabilidad”, dijo Dufourmantelle.“Es un riesgo estar vivo, pocos seres lo están”.

Rosario

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."

(Ursula K. Le Guin)

Vidhika Bansal • Tweet

rob hardy

“You can predict the long term health of a relationship by whether each cut heals to 99% or 101%.”

― Michael Mayer

alex

social theory: the best way to make new friends is to invite people to do an activity that will occupy enough of their brain capacity such that their defenses will be down and they’ll be a more open version of themselves

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alex

I had my reasons, of course. As I say, she is crazy. I am, too, but in a very different way. The immense effort it took for me to spend a whole day with her and ensure that it was “perfect”—that I did nothing to offend, upset, or bother her—proved to me that we just didn’t work. And I thought: When a relationship does not work, each party has the

Agnes Callard • Breaking Points

sari

What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get

Luke Burgis read.lukeburgis.com

Sixian

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

—James Baldwin

Tara Skurtu • Tweet

rob hardy

I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.

Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.

Heidi Priebe • Tweet

rob hardy

llili

Reminds me of the the ‘In-Yun’ concept if it was applied inside of an existing relationship