It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
"I know what pleasure is," cried Dorian Gray. "It is to adore some one."
"That is certainly better than being adored," he answered, toying with some fruits. "Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.
Gestalt Prayer
Bottom line is couples that are right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else. But the big difference is, they don't let it take 'em down. One of those two people will fight for that relationship every time, if it's right and they're real lucky.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
— You know, kid, in times like this, my buddy Timon here says, «You got to put your behind in your past».
— No, no, no. It's, 'You got to put your past behind you.' Look, kid, bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?
— Right.
— Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world.
Richard Sol: — Shall we say swords? Pistols at dawn?
Martin Hansen: — Have you remembered nothing? Recall the lessons of Adam Smith... the father of modern economics.
Bender: — "In competition... individual ambition serves the common good."
Ainsley Neilson: — Every man for himself, gentlemen.
Bender: — Those who strike out are stuck with her friends.
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John Nash: — Adam Smith needs revision.
Martin Hansen: — What are you talking about?
John Nash: — If we all go for the blonde... we block each other. Not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends... but they will all give us the cold shoulder
because nobody likes to be second choice. Well, what if no one goes for the blonde? We don't get in each other's way... and we don't insult the other girls. That's the only way we win. That's the only way we all get laid. Adam Smith said: "The best result comes from everyone in the group doing what's best for himself." Right. Incomplete. Okay? Because the best result will come from everyone in the group doing what's best for himself... and the group. Governing dynamics. Adam Smith... was wrong.
The hardest thing's loving someone and then having the courage to let them love you back. But if you know her shit and she knows yours and at the end of the day, you still would rather give up than try, nothing's ever gonna be worth it. Maybe think about it this way. You go back, you get to spend the rest of your life having really great makeup sex...
The relationship of man and woman...no more difficult or trying situation than this of mutual compatibility broken or disrupted by untoward conditions which in themselves have so little to do with the real force and beauty of the relationship itself.
Don't mistake salt for sugar. If he wants to be with you, he will. It's so simple.