relationships

1 you hold the lock, but i hold the key.

2 with relationships, how do you position yourself in
relation to other people? it's a fine line sometimes,
trying to hold onto yourself and your own identity and
either being lured into having other people define them
for you or having the things around you define them for
you.

3 it's bad enough we had to learn / the hard way about
giving up / when i thought you were joking / well, i'm
broken / you've known for a little while / you pass it on
and try something else / and hell, you knew you were the only one. (matchbox twenty)

4 i don't think i could take another empty moment / i don't think that i could fake another hollow smile / well, it's not enough just to be lonely / i don't think i could take another talk about it / just like me, you've got needs / and they're only a whisper away / i'll all that i'll ever be / when you lay your hands over me / and don't go / wait for me, please / god help me, i need this (matchbox twenty)

5 she has given me too many proofs of how much she does not love me, and how much she likes me, for me to interfere in her happiness. in admitting that i am beaten, you will please understand that i consider myself beaten by an unbeatable person whom i love and admire very much, and whom i would like to have admire me since she cannot love me. whatever suffering you may justly lay claim to--you cannot approximate mine. for this reason, i have the right to act as i deem necessary. (e. e. cummings)

6 when someone you love abandons you, it doesn't hurt just because they've changed or lied or went back on their promises, but because you know what they really are and what a beautiful person they can be. and when they take that away from you and won't let you see that beautiful person again--well, nothing hurts like having someone take away your entire world without consulting you first.

7 it's amazing / how you make your face just like a wall / how you take your heart and turn it off / i turn my head and lose it all / it's unnerving / how just one move puts me by myself / there you do just trusting someone else / now i know i put us both through hell / and i'm not saying / we ever had the right to hold on / i just didn't ever want to let it get away from me (matchbox twenty)

8 i just stood there, i didn't want them to leave. i wanted to shout to them: don't go, don't let it be over. i'm having too much fun . . . i wanted to tell them all, thanks for letting me be a part of it. (ron luciano)

9 parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. (emily dickenson)

10 how wonderful it is to having something that makes parting so difficult.

11 i know there is strength in the differences between us and comfort in the places we overlap. (ani difranco)

12 sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. there is a time for silence, a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

13 when you're standing at a crossroads and don't know which path to choose, let me come along, because even if you're wrong, i'll stand by you.

14 friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. it's not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't learned anything.

15 oh, but don't bowl me over / just wait a minute / well, it kinda fell apart / things get so crazy, crazy / don't rush this, baby (matchbox twenty)

16 friends are the ones who know the song in your heart and sing it back to you when you've forgotten all the words.

17 we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. he who is devoid of the power to forgive is also devoid of the power to love. there is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. when we realize this, we are less prone to hating our enemies.

18 i do believe we all have soulmates. i don't believe that we necessarily end up with them. (madonna)

19 friends are not the pillars on your porch.

20 he who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

21 enemies are so stimulating.

22 your head is so big that small objects are starting to orbit around it. i hope i'm
not one of them.

23 not matter how good a friend is, he's going to hurt you once in a while, and you
have to forgive him for that.

24 "pooh, promise me you won't ever forget about me, not even when i'm a hundred."
      pooh thought for a moment. "how old will i be then?"
      "ninety-nine."
     pooh nodded, "i promise," he said.

25 only now, as incredible as it may seem, do i realize that i never attempted to understand the person to whom i thought i cared for most in life and who understands me better than anyone alive. once to understand this person is, for me, to at last understand myself. i owe her everything in life--i have hurt her more than anyone but myself. anyone so magnificent as she should be allowed to entirely live. (e. e. cummings)

26 where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which i find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. i miss you like hell.

27 how grave is my condition, for i cannot find the words to say i need you so. (sarah maclachlan)

28 sometime not to know anything is the best for you, no worries, no nothin'. but then, what's the point to be happy along when friends around you aren't? so tell me, let me walk with you on your toughest time. i'll be there forever and ever. lean on me. let's do things a different way--my way.

29 understanding moods is as important to people as understanding the weather is to an airplane pilot. (r. carlson)

30 spiritual partners are able to see clearly that there is a deeper reason why they are together, and that reason has to do with the evolution of their souls. (gary zukav)

31 a woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a fantasy world. (robert heinlein)

32 so you hate my arrogance, my smothering and sitting on the fence, and i'm afraid of the hard permanence of letting you go free.

33 people may not remember exactly what you said or what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.