“It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.”

“… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does want to be rescued.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Relationship Principle 11
It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer