Thought-provoking Quotes About Relationships

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

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

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

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

To live without loving is not really to live.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

In relationships, the little things are the big things.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Love, honor, and negotiate.

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Without relationships, we have nothing.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

In a relationship, any interaction is really one of the heart.

In the end, we all just want someone that chooses us, over everyone else, under any circumstances.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

Selfish people will never get to experience the joy of human connection.

#1 relationship rule: over communicate.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Everything you want in life is a relationship away.

If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Every human interaction is composed of: need, competition, or war.

Vulnerability is the essence of connection and connection is the essence of existence.

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

A good relationship is a competition of generosity.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

You can never say no, that's impossible when it comes to human behavior or human relationships.

A good relationship is a contest of love.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

When love is a relationship, it creates misery. When love is a state of being, it creates bliss.

Be human: accept the other person's humanity with all the frailty humanity is prone to.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Compliment people behind their back.

Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship's poison.

A healthy relationship is one in which love enriches you; not imprisons you.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

Relationships are valuable for healing and learning how to love.

Every relationship is a lesson in love.

Disrespect is fatal to a relationship.

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

A real relationship is two-way.

Every relationship is work.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

A relationship is based on communication.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

You should only be in a relationship if it adds to your life.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

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

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Timing is everything with relationships.

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Use romantic relationships to grow, not to lose yourself. Keep your priorities in order.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

A soulmate relationship is supposed to be a nurturing, safe space. Never settle for anything less.

A happy relationship isn't about how it looks to others but how it feels to you.

In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted.

You deserve a person who loves you as much as you need to be loved.

When you're in a relationship as a taker, the giver will eventually get tired.

The good life is built with good relationships.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

The strength of our relationships is measured by how much people can count on us.

Those who are nurtured best, survive best.

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships.

The key to a good relationship is how you repair the stress fractures.

In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories.

Don't settle for a relationship that prevents you from being yourself.

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Love and meaningful relationships are vital to physical and emotional well-being.

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

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

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

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

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