#relationships

"It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home."

"Genocide [10w] Genocide is the runaway bride once death becomes the bridegroom."

"Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships."

"Children Learn to Love and Hate A child understands love by three months and hate by three years.How the child processes that understandingwill shape his character for the next seventy."

"Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve."

"First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend"

"Terkadang,yang tak bisa kamu lupakan adalah seseorang yang tak pernah bisa kamu miliki."

"Frank Lloyd Wright {Couplet} Frank Lloyd Wright eliminated the confining wall,so now when your wife screams at youit sounds like you're in Tammany Hall."

"New Year's Resolutions New Year's resolutions shouldn't be about doing new things;it should be about stopping to do the shitty things you're already doing."

"If you convert a shower curtain to a dress, I’ll wear my waterproof dancing shoes. Together we’ll move so fluidly people will line up to get cleansed."

"A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love."

"Lies vs. Truth [10w] I can only speak truth if I lie to myself."

"Wretched [10w] Intelligence without compassion is an invitation to a wretched life."

"A Chuck Yeager Moment {Couplet} There's a sonic boom resonating in my head as I break through the 2000 HP follower watershed."

"Kansas Haiku "Ya' know Superman'sfrom here and Jor-El could'vesent him to New York."

"Gained in Translation [10w] In timeless truths there's more gained than lost in translation."

"Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free."

"Break All the Rules of Poetry Place no limits on your poetry.Live a little.Break all the fucking rules!If it comes deep from the wellsprings of your imagination,the woolgathering of dreamers ~it is poetry ~no matter what anyone says."

"Closets Opening and Closing [10w] + [10w] You can take sweet gay men out of the closet;you can't take the closet out of the master-bedroom suite."

"My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life."