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Besides, Everything Is Better Now Except Us: A Reflection on Change and Relationships

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We see several things that are beyond level beautiful and appreciatebale. Sometimes ordinary things give us a reason to smile and sometimes occur when we just ignore everything because we are feeling depressed or any type of feeling. We often celebrate our achievements, but there is often a realization that despite all this progress, something feels off when it comes to our relationships. And we just feel that everything around us is better except us.

It might be because of the change in relationship or emotional distance in a relationship or whatever but we just feel dizzy and want to get rid of everything. The external condition might improve but personal connections weaken. It raises several questions like why we are feeling like it. Why do we feel disconnected despite living in an era designed to bring us together? The relationship reflection raises lots of questions.  

Breakup quotes: 

    • “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
    • We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.” – Halle Berry
    • “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
    • “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.” – Willa Cather
    • “I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.” -Humphrey Bogart
    • “You’re born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special ‘single’ status, I don’t understand. Life is less stressful being single; I have to admit.” – Bipasha Basu

Reflecting on personal vs relationship progress:

We all face problems and hurdles and broken relations somehow make it tough and moving on from the past becomes a challenge for us. The emotional disconnect relations often break us deep and we just want to leave everything and be alone for a longer time. But love and change over time stay with us simultaneously. We feel everything is better now except us but reflection on change and relationship teaches you several lessons. Instead of being alienated, we should keep struggling for betterment so that we can feel that everything is better now just like us instead of except us. 

Quotes on Change and Relationships

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
C.S. Lewis

“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself—to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me… Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow a jealous heart.”
Leo F. Buscaglia

“Unconditional love exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being… It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason… It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”
Ram Dass

“A soul mate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.”
Kenny Loggins

“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”
Doug Fetherling

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
C.S.

“‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’”
E.B. White

“Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.”
Fred Rogers

“It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”
John Grogan 

“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same.”
Flavia Weedn

“I would have liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” —Everything Everywhere All At Once

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

 “Nothing is safer than the sound of you reading aloud to me—the perfect date.” —Rupi Kaur

 “Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different.” —Sue Zhao

 “I exist in two places: Here and where you are.” —Margaret Atwood

 “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”—Maya Angelou

 “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” —Vladimir Nabokov

 Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

The Illusion of Perfection

Sometimes it’s easy to assume that everything is perfect around us but coping with relationship struggles sometimes weakens us. However, we should focus on our personal growth, emotional needs, and relationship care are neglected. Ironically, even with more ways to stay connected, people feel lonelier. Relationships need emotional intimacy and shared experiences, and as individuals grow, they may not grow together, leaving relationships. 

Healing relationship quotes:

  • “You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you.” –Mark Boyer
  • “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”- Sam Keen
  • “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’” – Erich Fromm
  • “The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
  •  “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
  •  “Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.” – N.R. Hart
  • “The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
  • “Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” – Phillips Brooks
  • The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society.” – Maya Angelou
  • Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” – Carroll Bryant.
  • “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude…Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
  • “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart” – Leo Buscaglia

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