“When it comes to love and relationships most of us fail our way to success.”
Source: Every Ending is a New Beginning
“One of the things that distinguishes great marriages from good marriages is the degree to which appreciation trumps tolerance.”
Source: The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love
“Most men believe deep down that all women, even those they see on television, are potential mates.”
Source: Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese
“Let expectations die and sensuality flow.”
“You have to practice being single but in a relationship. This is not a contradiction, it’s the art of sensual living.”
“But before the man could reach the door, there was a knock, like one that happens to precipitate a courtship meeting for two punctuation marks that are going out to dinner and one really doesn’t like the restaurant, but goes anyway because they’re a comma dating.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul itself!”
“but only after our own respective prides slowly melted away, like a lion family ice sculpture being left near those restaurant heaters that a maître d’ was going to have to blame a waiter for so she could keep her job and he could lose his as payback for him dumping her for the ice sculptor.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“Many people believe there exists a single person who is their perfect partner or “soul mate.” That may be true, but then I certainly hope that my soul mate does not live in a remote village in India. Suppose that my soul mate was born, like me, in the 1960s. Limiting myself to women who are still alive, and assuming that half of them have already met their soul mates, I have perhaps 200 million potential partners. If I meet two potential partners a day, there’s a 50/50 chance I will find my soul mate within a quarter of a million years.”
Source: Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating
“When picking a life partner, I don’t get to pick the best one available. I get to pick the best one available who picks me back. In this way, the online dating search process is much more similar to the job search process than it is to the house hunting process.”
Source: Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating