Relationship Quotes

• “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy- I am telling you it is going to be worth it.” – Art Williams.
• “It doesn’t matter who hurt you, or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again.” – Unknown
• Too often a relationship becomes about keeping score of who wins and who loses. If you care about that person enough, none of that matters, it just matters that the two of you can find a way to come to an agreement and move forward.
• “Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you.” – Unknown
• This is an important one to think about, as it has a great deal to do with the constant appreciation we need to show for each other.
• “There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other, and start fighting for each other. “ – Dave Willis
• This is a great concept. The understanding that there is nothing that each of you is strong enough to accomplish on your own, as you would be together.
• “He can’t read your mind. So take a moment to let him know how you really feel.” – Unknown
• This seems so obvious, but often goes unspoken. As we get further and further into a relationship, we assume the other person knows how we feel. This is not true, it remains just as important to tell always clarify how we are feeling for our partner.
• “Sometimes you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.” – Unknown
• In this day of people searching so hard, and on such a deadline to meet people, we often forget that we most often meet people when we least expect it. When we are completely off guard, and being completely ourselves.
• “Whether it is a friendship or a relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing.” – Unknown
• This really is as simple as it sounds. Without trust, there is nothing. If we do not trust our partner, how can there ever be peace in the relationship?
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• “Apologizing does not mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.” – Unknown
  Relationship Quotes about apologies
• This ties back to the concept of keeping score. Sometimes it is not about winning the argument, it is about winning the affections and happiness of your partner.
• “Don’t talk, just act. Don’t say, just show. Don’t promise, just prove.” – Unknown
• This ties into one simple concept, let your actions meet your words. People get tired of hearing the same things over and over that never get done. Be a person of substance, a person of action, a person who does what they say.
• “We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.” – Unknown
• Believe that good or bad, everyone comes into your life, and into a relationship with you for a reason. Whether it is to have an undying love, or whether it is to further define what you want in a relationship remains to be seen.
• Don’t forget to use these missing someone quotes to make your feelings known.
• “The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in.” – Unknown
• Time and again, the relationships that you hear people say, “I would have never seen them together,” are the best ones. They are the ones where people have let go of the unrealistic images we have of our ideal person, and open ourselves possibilities.
• “You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships are not great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.” – Unknown
• Remember this point, as it is important. The person you are with now, is not anyone you have been with before. Do not hold the crimes of the past against the person in your present.
• “A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other.” – Unknown
  “The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.” – Unknown
  Relationship Quotes about the best feeling in the world
• It is as simple as that. It is a deeply warm and powerful feeling to know that we mean something special to someone else. That to them, there is no one in this world quite like us.
• “All relationships go through hell, real ones get through it.” – Unknown
  Relationship Quotes on what they go through
• If people who have been together for any length of time tell you that they have never been through tough times, question their honesty. It is the belief that relationships are not disposable, they are worth working for.
• “A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” – Unknown
  Relationship Quotes on supporting each other
• In a strong relationship, you never holds the transgressions of someone’s past against them. They should never come up at all. You are very active and supportive of them in the present, and you are encouraging of their future goals.
• “The moment you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do.” – Unknown

Relationship Quotes to motivate you

• “Don’t let someone to change who you are, to become what they need.” – Unknown
• The hope is that your partner fell in love with you for who you are, do not change yourself to fill the voids of what they need to feel complete. They are the only person who can do that for themselves.
• “A perfect relationship is not perfect, it’s just that both people never gave up.” – Unknown
  Relationship Quotes about not giving up
• “No matter how busy a person’s day may be, if they really care, they will always find time for you.” – Unknown
  Relationship Quotes about caring
• “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” – Gloria Steinem
  Relationship Quotes for your loved one
• “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”— Henry Winkler
  Relationship Quotes about assumptions
• “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
• “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
• “We were together even when we were apart.” – Shannon A. Thompson
• “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
• “True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another.” – John, from Wedding Crashers
• “Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.”
  ― Patti Callahan Henry
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
• “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” — Joseph F. Newton
• “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” – Robert Brault
• “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”— Carl W. Buechner
• “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ― Donald Miller
• “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” – Sophocles
• When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” ― Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”– Walter Winchell
• “Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.” – Anonymous

• “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung
• “Everything you want in life is a relationship away.”― Idowu Koyenikan
• “The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.” – Mandy Hale
• “Be sure it’s your real self you’re showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.”― Daphne Rose Kingma
• “Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different.” – Sue Zhao
• “If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.”― Shannon Alder
• “No road is long with good company.”— Turkish Proverb
• “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”— Albert Schweitzer
• “No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.”― Chuck Palahniuk
• “The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”― Alessandra Torre
• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind/And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
• “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” – Carroll Bryant
• “People generally didn’t cheat in good relationships.”― Emily Giffin
• “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” – Margaret Atwood
• “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling that love actually is all around.” – The Prime Minister, from Love, Actually
• “Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person.” – Kermit the Frog
• “Love is something eternal; the aspect might change, but not the essence.” – Vincent Van Gogh
• “Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.” – Niti Majethia
• “Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationships.”― Wm. Paul Young
• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
• “In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”― Wayne W. Dyer
• “You’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.” – Kathleen, from You’ve Got Mail
• “All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.” – Unknown
• “You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you.” – Ella December
• “In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” – Robert Breault
• “Find a heart that will love you at your worst and arms that will hold you at your weakest.” – Unknown
• “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”— Swedish Proverb
• “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”— Andre Breton
• “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”— Miles Franklin
  Insightful relationship quotes
• “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
• “The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”– George Eliot
• “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”– Oscar Wilde
• “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.” – Margaret Mead
• “The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.” – Greta Scacchi
• “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J.K. Rowling
• “The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.” – Henry Cloud
• “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
• “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West
• “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard—they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
• “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” – Alexandra Penney
• “A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.” – Dinkar Kalotra
• “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus
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• “Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore
• “Love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
• “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” – George Eliot
• “The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” – B. R. Ambedkar
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• “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.” – Doménico Cieri Estrada
• “Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still.” – Catherine Pulsifer

• “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
• “Do what you did in the beginning of the relationship and there won’t be an end.” – Anthony Robbins
• “Love alone can rekindle life.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
• “No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.” – Sarah Dessen
• “Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.” – N. R. Heart
• “Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.” – Mike Murdock
• “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” – Honore de Balzac
• “You’re my reflection, all I see is you.” – Justin Timberlake
• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson Gentry
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• “The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” – Stephen R. Covey
• “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
• “When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” – Keith Sweat
• “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.” – Eva Gabor
• “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” – Stephanie Perkins
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• “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” – Jeanna Moreau
•  “It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman
•  “What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” – Leo Buscaglia
•  “In relationships, the little things are the big things.” – Stephen Covey
•  “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alain de Botton
•  “Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won’t cry, lips that won’t lie, and love that won’t die.” – Wiz Khalifa
•  “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
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•  “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” –John Lennon
•  “Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.” ― Nicholas Sparks
• “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah
• “The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts you at your worst.” – Unknown
• “It’s a humbling thing when you find someone to love. Even better if you’ve been waiting your whole life.” – George Clooney
• “The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it.” – Unknown
• “There’s no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you’ll reap the rewards.” – Jesse Metcalfe
• “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Beyoncé
• “I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Stick to the basics: Hold on to your family and friends—they will never go out of fashion.” —Niki Taylor
• “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow
• “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
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• “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” —Walter Winchell
• “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks
• “Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” —Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”- Emily Bronte
• “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” —Mother Teresa
• “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – A.A. Milne
  Relationship quotes to inspire you on your journey together
• “The biggest difference trust makes in any relationship – and not just an intimate one – is that you can relax, be open, be yourself.” – Mira Kirshenbaum
• “In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwens
• “Being good to yourself equates to having a positive relationship with yourself and higher self-esteem.” – Sophie Winters
• “Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” – Dee King
• “When you cultivate quality relationships, not only do you feel better and help your friends feel better, but you contribute to an increase of joy, love, and peace in the world.” – Tara Bianca
• “Beyond friendships adding to the list of improving life success and happiness, experts also assert that supportive relationships improve our odds of survival by fifty percent.” – Shasta Nelson
• “Don’t give up at the first signs of friction: only through clear communication, flexibility and willingness to adapt can you find a relationship that will weather the storms of life.” – Tom Miles
• “Our lack of attention means we don’t notice or we miss much that is going on and this affects our relationships.” – Anna Black
• “Forgiveness is essential for every kind of relationship we have.” – Barbara J Hunt
• “Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.” – Alana Johnson
  Relationship quotes for couples
• “It’s not how long you’ve been with someone that matters, but rather the love you share in your heart.” – Unknown
• “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”― Albert Camus
• “I’m grateful for the struggles we have faced together because we have grown together as a couple.” – Unknown
• “If you live to be one hundred, I want to live a hundred minus one day, so I would never have to live a day without you.” — A.A. Milne, “Winnie the Pooh”
• “So long as there is a little real friendship and a desire to help each other that is sufficient.” – Nathan Bisrizki
• “She was trouble. Chaos really. But her smile. Her smile dared me to fall in love with her.” — Atticus
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• “Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others; find the positive attributes that they possess.” – Roy T. Bennett
• “No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together.” – Unknown
• “Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.” – Helen Keller
• “A great relationship is about two things: First, appreciating the similarities and second, respecting the differences.” – Unknown
• “Affection is when you see someone’s strengths; love is when you accept someone’s flaws.” – One Day
• “I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Moonrise Kingdom
• “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
• “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”—Nicholas Sparks
• “You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” – Boris Pasternak
• “You are my greatest adventure.” – The Incredibles
• “That’s how you know you love someone, I guess when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings
• “Everything seems right when you’re with the right person and you feel lucky to be blessed because of their love for you.” – Unknown
• “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
• “There is no right person out there, just find someone from the left and bring him/her to the right.” – Unknown
• “You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.” – Love & Other Drugs
• “… When I look at you, I can feel it. And… and I look, and I… and I’m home.” – Finding Nemo
• “Since the invention of the kiss, there have been only five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.” – The Princess Bride
• “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”—Yoko Ono
• “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
• “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make…”
  —The Beatles
• “I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.” – Atonement
• “In all you do, find someone you share the same dream with, someone that their presence means a lot to you.” – Unknown
• “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
• “There is no better feeling than to love someone and to be loved in return by that same person.” – Unknown
• “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”— Dalai Lama XIV
• “If you love yourself you love others, if you hate yourself you hate others, because in relationship with others it is only you mirrored.” – Osho
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• “One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretending you care about them more than you really do.”— Douglas Coupland
• “My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.” – Byron Katie
• “Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.” – B. D. Schiers
• “Quit wanting them to be the way you want them to be. Just love them.” – Kamal Ravikant
• “When your heart has room for everybody then your heart is full of love.” – Fred Rogers
• “Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.” – Seneca
• “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” – Leo Christopher
• “Never look up to anybody, never look down on anybody. You look them eye to eye.” – Unknown
  More relationship quotes and sayings
• “When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”— Steve Maraboli
• “If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” – Charlotte Brontë
• “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”— Wm. Paul Young
• “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” – Charles Dickens
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• “Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.” – Osho
• “Remember to stay away from people who have a problem for every solution.” – Paulo Coelho
• “Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it.” – Fred Rogers
• “We are so different, yet so much the same.” – Gloria Steinem
• “In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
• “So much of life is being present with the people you love.” – Shane Parrish
• “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” —Richard Bach
• “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
• “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
• “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” —Benjamin Franklin
• “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” —Virginia Woolf
• “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” -Maya Angelou
• “Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable … for us, forever just won’t do.” -Steve Maraboli

• “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” -Cassandra Clare
• “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” -Robert Browning
• “As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change … I will always keep falling in love with you.” -Karen Clodfelder
• “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’” -Erich Fromm
• “Real love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach
• “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” -Herman Hesse
• “In a sea of people, my eyes will always search for you.” -Author Unknown
• “Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.” -Author Unknown

The best relationship quotes about the good, the bad, and the ugly

• “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Wayne Dyer
• “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving
• “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” — Richard Bach
• “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay
• “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk
• “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.” — Thomas Merton
• “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.” — Julia Roberts
• “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.” — Khalil Gibran
  Relationship quotes for those in love
• . “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” –Agatha Christie
• . “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• . “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – Nora Ephron
• . “Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” – John Lennon
• . “If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens.” – Barack Obama
• “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
• “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – Unknown
• “I never want to stop making memories with you.” – Pierre Jeanty
• “Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess.” – Unknown
• “And I don’t know why but with you I’d dance in a storm in my best dress, fearless.” – Taylor Swift, Fearless
  Interesting relationship quotes
• “I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.” — Elon Musk
• “The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.” — Robert Anthony
• “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” — Rabindranath Tagore
• “Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” — Keanu Reeves
• “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou
• “There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” — Bryant H. McGill
• “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” — Katharine Hepburn
• “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.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
• “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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “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.” — John Lennon
  Relationship Quotes to keep the Passion Alive
• “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
• “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.” – Nicholas Sparks
• “It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” – Gabriel Garcia Márquez
• “It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.” – Haruki Murakami
• “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” – Albert Einstein
• “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
• “Can’t you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that little girl on the bridge, was to bring me closer to you.” – Arthur Golden
• “The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.” – Arundhati Roy
• “If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy.” – Bob Marley
• “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Jane Austen

Relationship Quotes

• Stephanie Klein relationships quote “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else”“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.” – Stephanie Klein
• For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. Stephanie Perkins
• It’s probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he’s absolutely lethal. Charlaine Harris
• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
  C.G. Jung

• I suffer from girl-next-door-itis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it. Taylor Swift
• Hugh Mackay quote “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational”“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” – Hugh Mackay
• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from. Mae West
• Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.Candace Bushnell
• Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.Bill Maher
• A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. Mae West
• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough
• Sarah Dessen quote “Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside”“Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside.” – Sarah Dessen
• Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler
• 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. Elbert Hubbard
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
• Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there. Patti Callahan Henry
• Donald Miller relationship quote “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are”“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
• Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
• To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. Doménico Cieri Estrada
• In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. Robert Brault
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
• Audrey Hepburn relationship quote “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other”“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
• We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
  Albert Schweitzer
• Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships. Unknown
• No road is long with good company. Turkish Proverb
• Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone. Unknown
• Cornel West quote “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence”“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West
• What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot
• The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. E. Joseph Cossman
• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J.K. Rowling
• It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party. Nick Hornby
• The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
  Neale Donald Walsch
• Oscar Wilde relationship quote “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation”“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
• Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still. Catherine Pulsifer
• The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship. Henry Cloud
• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. B. R. Ambedkar
• You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
  Epicurus
• Bob Marley relationship quote “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for”“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
• Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you. Unknown
• Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. Gloria Steinem
• Whether it is a friendship or a relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing. Unknown
• You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships are not great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work. Unknown
• Joseph Newton quote “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges”“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Joseph F. Newton
• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
• Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. Michele Weiner-Davis
• Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need. Margaret Mead
• You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
  Epicurus
• Alexandra Penney relationship quote “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands”“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” – Alexandra Penney
• When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen
• Relationships are worth fighting for, but you can’t be the only one fighting. Unknown
• A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.
  Unknown
• Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
• Swedish Proverb “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow”“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish Proverb
• A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person. Unknown
• In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. Robert Brault
• A woman laughing is a woman conquered. Napoleon Bonaparte
• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot