“I think what I want is for someone to know me. Really know me. Know me better than anyone else and maybe even me. Isn't that why we commit to another? It's not for sex. if it were for sex, we wouldn't marry one person. We'd just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the more I think about it, the more I think long-term relationships are for getting to know someone. I want someone to know me, really know me, almost like that person could get into my head. What would that feel like? To have access, to know what it's like in someone else's head. To rely on someone else, have him rely on you. That's not a biological connection like the one between parents and children. This kind of relationship would be chosen. It would be something cooler, harder to achieve than one built on biology and shared genetics.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Try as I might,
I can't write
you—it’s like
nailing sunlight
onto this white
page. I cannot,
for you are a dream
of yourself. You
who is my beginning
and my destination, even
my path is You.
This is Love.
But what is love? A silent
four-letter word,
when the music
of the entire language is You.
You see beyond me,
and into my possibilities.
But all my possibilities lead
to You.
For it was written that I
would love you,
that it'd be your destiny
to greet me. That You
would be my destiny,
and the rememberers
will utter my poems
only because
I loved
You.
Try as I might,
I can’t write
you—it’s like
nailing sunlight
onto this white
page. I cannot.
But reading this here
it is clear:
You are the poem
writing me.”
“You’re in a bad relationship when you spend most of the time pretending that you’re happy. Move on, move out! Enough of this self-betrayal!”
“Curiosity creates connections.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“Communicating what we appreciate by saying nice things has powerful results for ourselves and those around us.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“Your body language can divulge your disinterest or, conversely, it can affirm your attentiveness and confidence.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“If you don’t believe the message you are trying to transmit, why should anybody else?”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“Perhaps he felt a touch of gratitude too for the fact that they had each other, for better or worse. They might be facing the worse right now, but the fact that they could lean on each other in the midst of it moved it into the better category.”
Source: More Than Words Can Say
“It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“When you need to fake it, make it real.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like