Education is understanding relationships.
relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. . . . You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. For me, we find this beauty through relationships, with people in place with other species. Integrity is the word that comes to mind. Integrity and presence.
People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.
The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.
Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.
I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.
First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.
Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships.
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed
The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.
Anytime I need any type of strength, the relationships that I have had with my closest friends for the majority of my life, is my home.