“Romance is a game where the smiling would spar,
overcoming shells that totally fake are,
thinking of how the opposing force feels,
even if dating with her can’t be real,
the game mainly is delving minds ever slow,
from nothing to love getting, not for the show,
you need just experience, patience, soft calm,
just sometimes to nonchalant be with your palms…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“If the outcome is not the outcome you want (profound reciprocity and readiness to take this thing to the next level), promise that you will strive to feel sadness, not shame.
Grieve the fact that this person does not want what you want, but do not turn against yourself. Direct your disappointment toward the outcome, not toward you as a person.”
Source: Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and Thrive
“If you remind yourself how good it feels to be liked, perhaps it will be easier to let someone know you like them. There’s a kindness —a generosity of sorts—in letting someone know you think they are pretty amazing. Drop the story that liking someone puts you in the weaker position.”
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Thanks to smart phones and the Internet, the way we meet someone new, fall in love, have fights and have sex has changed remarkably. We can be in bed in crushed pyjamas and a bag of Doritos in one hand, and with the other, swipe right on the next person we end up with. Flirting has taken the form of sending memes and lifted the burden of being witty and romantic. And seduction…well, seduction has been reduced to dirty text messages and reluctant nudes. It’s all high-speed and low effort.”
Source: Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India
“Right now no matter your age these are your golden years. The good stuff will yield golden memories and the bad stuff will yield golden lessons.”
Source: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“At church, during communion, they give out free wine. Whoa! Talk about a great place to drink and meet women.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I feel like I'm making all the mistakes I would have made if I'd been dating people since I was thirteen. Even if you're really just playing at being in a relationship, you're still feeling your way through it at least. You're finding out what it means to be with someone, to care about them, what it means to have someone else in your life like that. I feel like the straight kids all get a roadmap and a head start, and the queer kids get given a faulty compass and a dead leg so they have to limp their way to 'destination relationship' while blindfolded.”
Source: You’re the One That I Want
“I asked her on a date for Friday at 8:00. She said, “Some other time, maybe.” So I said, “How about 8:01?””
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't