P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a physical battle. I mean a man who would lay me, and when he was done, I'd say: "Oh, brother, I've been laid." Or if we had an argument, he would stand up and engage in intellectual combat and not go off and mope in the corner, or take reprisals, or go to drink.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society.

I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

People treat us the way we teach them to treat us.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.