Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Dare!
Love me Back! ANSHUL SRIVASTAVA Stupids enjoy life the most for they can never realize the value of the precious things lost & the l... ANUJ SOMANY Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas... ANUJ SOMANY A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend mos... ANUJ SOMANY Concieving a child after treatment from doctors may involve using crooked means by one of the family... APURVA GAGLANI When a sensible quote is adored a lot by many or most people on a person’s INDIVIDUAL social media... ANUJ SOMANY A word or music that flows from the soul magically touches the heart of one and all. ANUJ SOMANY The level of sadness and not happiness increases in a person’s life as his/her awareness rises abo... ANUJ SOMANY Be a voice
Voice your opinions
Voice your thoughts
Voice your displeasure
Voice your feelings
Voice ... APURVA GAGLANI Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te... APURVA GAGLANI The staircase is a firm footing, the lift is a hanging platform. Wonder why so many people prefer th... APURVA GAGLANI Are you climbing a mountain, or digging a hole. KENT POLLON For a childless couple who follow truth and are honest they are very few options to get a baby.
1 Th... APURVA GAGLANI We are—or were —Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beli... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT People often extending their support to a person forms a comprehensive report about his or her level... ANUJ SOMANY A learned person underrates own intelligence & overvalues others importance, so remains in public la... ANUJ SOMANY The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on... ANUJ SOMANY There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re... ANUJ SOMANY A wise does not have necessarily nice words but always good in intention; a wicked may have regularl... ANUJ SOMANY BETTER to be loved by just one person who is truly the BEST to trust than being mischievously liked ... ANUJ SOMANY It is always difficult for an emotional person to choose an option between the job and the business ... ANUJ SOMANY A person who is humanitarian by soul has a great scope of becoming a true comedian, but let remember... ANUJ SOMANY Live or die, don't hang in between. NEHA KOTHARI It is so common amongst the common people of an ordinary mind to find own selfish desire as dream an... ANUJ SOMANY A good person has voice gives voice. A bad person has noise makes noise APURVA GAGLANI You make trade offs: do you want to get everything that's relevant or do you want to miss some thing... MARK ANDREWS I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to... KATARINA WITT A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself... DAVID WHYTE We can't tell over the phone if the person is a senior or disabled. And when we pick them up, they d... DONNA INGRAM Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towa... TOBA BETA You can borrow a camcorder or a still camera and take pictures of everything. Or you can walk from r... BRENT NEISER Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM. I will only get one or two or three days worth ... CAROL MICKELSEN Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM, ... I will only get one or two or three days wo... CAROL MICKELSEN Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. GLORIA STEINEM We will provide all materials. Or bring in something special, if you like. It's free for anyone to c... HEATHER COLLINS People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re ... SHANNON L. ALDER A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can trea... DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three-or throw them away and loo... BERNARD MALAMUD I personally wonder... regardless of whether you're a religious person or not, everybody comes i... BILL HASLAM Think about it, the only people you can TRUST are Marijuana activists! MALCOLM NOTHLING The biggest selfish is like a mentally sick who can think nothing but to lick own looks on pic only,... ANUJ SOMANY Personal experience is that sharing own pain or problem with others especially friends and family me... ANUJ SOMANY She looks at Sam. 'Close your ears if you don't want to know what I suspect to be the sex of your ch... MELINA MARCHETTA Bravery reward is to be bestowed to a person who stands strong as single; Slavery award is to be giv... ANUJ SOMANY If you happen to be in sports,music or movie,endeavor to have a clean image,because the money you ea... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Worse than not offering plaudit to the right one for something excellent said and/or done by him onl... ANUJ SOMANY Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is... JAMES A. GARFIELD Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love.
Some people lie and the... VANDA M I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn’t have made them. Freak or fake, I�... KAREN JOY FOWLER I don’t care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn’t for you.... JUDITH ORLOFF Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledg... NAVEEN JAIN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good eno... ANON. A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagree... GRETCHEN RUBIN Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo... SARAH DESSEN You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want ... DAVID MORRISSEY Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your m... DOUGLAS BADER The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b... PAWAN MISHRA There are some other things you have to take into account with risk. If you only have two or three y... KYLE HERRMAN When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. BORIS SPASSKY I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and c... MADONNA CICCONE What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the poin... GEORGE ORWELL If what you do gets people to cry, laugh or say 'wow'...you did good. If they do all three, you did ... LORRIN L. LEE Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling whe... NATALIA KILLS A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? ... SHEL SILVERSTEIN What if heaven or hell have nothing to do with circumstances bestowed upon you and everything with t... RENATE VULLINGS This market is ripe for a lower fare alternative and who better to provide it than Detroit's hometow... BARRY BIFFLE We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place,... GEORGE W. BUSH Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get yo... DR. THOMAS FULLER There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. Y... URSULA K. LE GUIN The best part is you always have friends around, no matter what. It's either one, two or all three o... AL HORFORD Did you ever wake up to think someone might be missing you? Wondering why did they let you go? And w... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a... CHRIS CRUTCHER It’s this or nothing at all. R.J. GROVES We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation wh... LISA ALEXANDER You can never practice those types of situations like tonight. You can never say we're within three,... DIRK GOSDA If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you... EMMA THOMPSON Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or... DENNIS RODMAN When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You s... JASON FRIED Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - th... JULIE KLAUSNER Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are t... VISWANATHAN ANAND Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER
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