Relationship Quotes

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other. The reciprocity of their relations will not do away with the miracles – desire, possession, love, dream, adventure – worked by the division of human beings into two separate categories; and the words that move us – giving, conquering, uniting – will not lose their meaning. On the contrary, when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Not Eve:Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.

~ T.f. Hodge

It doesn't mean I'm not thinking it. I always feel a bit defeated when I have to follow up with I love you too. It's like the sequel to a film: I Love You and I Love You Too. You know the second one's always going to be a predictable reworking of the first.

~ James Hannah

Sometimes I text the wrong person ... on purpose. Just to start a conversation.

~ Frank Warren

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

I left her because of you,not for you.

~ Taimoor Madni

If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you.

~ Hafiz

If a relationship comes with conditions apply, it's not worth having.

~ Saru Singhal

He was a committed ladies' man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure which is so paradoxically generous to those who take from it and so destructively cruel to those who give.

~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya

By its nature a relationship was not an accomplishment. It was just a connection that happened to exist, for as long as it did exist.

~ Caleb Crain

Be with people who question you, that's how you learn and grow.

~ Saru Singhal

Any relationship that is solely built on lust absolutely has no long blissful future.

~ Hafiz

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wifewhich made me worse. I howled in my cell.If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell?

~ Carol Ann Duffy

I'd Drown For YouI opened my heart to youA complete immersionI offered my soul to youA heavenly diversion

~ Muse

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

~ Charles F. Glassman

I don't know how I ever really lived before my husband came into my life.

~ Kim Yannayon

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

~ Marilyn Manson

Agony's PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been....

~ Muse

I Cannot Remember You...engulfed in liquid amnesiaI cannot fight the tide

~ Muse

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

~ Claire Tomalin

I cannot remember you when the rain flows down -I cannot remember youandmy heart begins to drown ...

~ Muse

We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would take to change is too terrifying to contemplate. We never want to hear how badly we are being treated in a relationship because we are strong and how dare you suggest we don't know better.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of that person, with whom they generally lived.

~ François Lelord

In relationships, when there is suffering there cannot be true love: true Love is Unconditional. Either Love is joy and happiness, or it is not Unconditional Love.

~ Human Angels

One retired pastor, who felt that he was being called to write a book about homosexuality, interviewed me. He said he wanted his book to be pastorally compassionate toward gay people while exhorting the church to remain firm in holding to a traditional, biblical sexual ethic. He said, You have to be careful to not love people too much. Loving people changes you. Indeed, loving people does change you. Loving people who are different than you changes you. But it seems to me that such change is consistent with the call of Christ. Allowing your heart to enter the beauty and brokenness of another's life (which really isn't so different from your own), to hear hopes and dreams and disappointments, fears and hurts and joys does change you. One ought not be afraid of that.

~ Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

Don’t underestimate the dreams everyone has, you have no knowledge about the one that would later marry your own. Be each other’s keeper and know that beautiful dreams date only beautiful dreams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your partner is your deepest mirror: do not expect them to change. Healing yourself, you heal your relationship.

~ Human Angels

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections, be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers, you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

They have left the first stage of romance—the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don’t really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure.

~ David Levithan

Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees-breaking up isn't something that gets done to you, it's something that happens with you.

~ John Green

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Dear Lover,Your laughter is warm rain, and you are the rainbow.

~ Lori Jenessa Nelson

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere, people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that the main curative part of psychotherapy is the relationship itself. It appears not to be relevant which psychology school the practitioner belongs to. What matters is the quality of the relationship and the practitioner's belief in what he or she is offering.

~ Philippa Perry

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

~ Scott Westerfeld

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

~ Jackie Kay

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.

~ Scott Westerfeld

Relationships can be compared to the shopping process. You shop for clothes, food, shoes, etc. You aim at getting yourself the very best things you need and carefully select the items. We can apply this same concept when we take the time to know and understand those we invite into our space. We may not know everything about them upfront but just as we try on clothes to see if they fit, so also should we evaluate those we surround ourselves with and set boundaries where applicable.

~ Kemi Sogunle

I can be patient, but I am not God! Don't take me for granted, or you will spend your life gathering my scattered self!

~ Shilpa Sandesh