Relationship Quotes

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Everybody needs somebody.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

The art of listening is a vital component to a relationship that thrives every day of the year, making Valentine's Day so much sweeter.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.