Best Quotes About Relationships

"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need." ~Margaret Mead

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." ~Leo Buscaglia

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" ~Stephen Levine

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships. "~Henry Winkler

"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

“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.” ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

“Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.” ~Hector Bianciotti

“It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.” ~Robert Brault

“Sometimes, we need a few people in our lives who will calmly call our bluff.” ~Dr. SunWolf

“People change and forget to tell each other.” ~Lillian Hellman

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.” ~Mary Tyler Moore

“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” ~Hugh Mackay

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.” ~Ellen DeGeneres

“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.” ~Taylor Swift

“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” ~David Rockefeller

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.”~Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.” ~Mike Murdock

“People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.” ~Toni Collette

"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."~ Thomas Jefferson

"Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together."~ Author Unknown

“In life you’ll realize there is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you, and some will teach you. But most importantly, some will bring out the best in you.” ~ Unknown

"The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity." ~Brian Tracy

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people." ~ Albert Camus

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take." ~ Anthony Robbins

"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

"the best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you *can* say anything to the other person but you don't say *everything*." ~ Audrey Stein

"The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves" ~ Greg Anderson

"True happiness comes from within, not from someone else. Don’t make the mistake of waiting on someone or something to come along and make you happy." ~ Unknown

"Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is." ~ Unknown

"Respect is earned, honesty is appreciated, trust is gained, and loyalty is returned." ~Unknown

"The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you." ~ Unknown

“Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.” ~Charles F. Glassman

“Life does not end when a relationship ends, just like life doesn't start when a relationship starts.” ~Mary Mihalic

“A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate.” ~Mark W. Boyer

"Use wisdom when developing relationships and establishing new alliances. There are people who do not have pure motives as it pertains to developing relationships. They only want to be seen with you because they want to establish association. These people want the recognition affiliated with your success but they are not willing to go through what you did to achieve it.” ~
Dr. Glen A. Staples

“Sometimes when you lose someone, it’s at that moment that you realize how much they mean to you. And when that happens, and when you think about how you let them slip away, you know you’d do anything just to have them there with you again.” ~ Jennifer Farwell

“It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal” ~Saji Ijiyemi

"Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world, choose the one who makes your world beautiful." ~Unknown