The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.
A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.
You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.
When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].
Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.
You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.
It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union
It definitely sometimes feels like a suit that I wish I could zip off. But I don’t feel bad about any of the things I’ve gone through, whether it’s divorce or breakups or anything like that, because that’s all part of the life journey, and I have those experiences just like anyone else. And I think it deepens what you tap into creatively.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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