Relationships Quotes

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

~ Brandon Sanderson

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

~ John Green

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

~ Dale Carnegie

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

~ Deepak Chopra

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

~ Tim Mcgraw

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

~ Dale Renton

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.

~ Amy Poehler

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

~ Brené Brown

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

~ William Paul Young

I cannot have a man who is afraid of everything, I don't have the time to soothe insecurities and fears, I cannot have a man who is standing on a stone by a creek, watching for the fish to swim by and every time he sees a fish he says Oh look, this fish scares me, I wonder what this fish means, this fish might mean- this, or this fish might mean- that for God's sake, they are just fish, and they don't mean anything! Such a sad thing, so many fine, strong men standing on top of little stones, pointing at fish all the time! Such a waste! Such a waste of time! I can only have a man who will leap into the water, not minding the damn fish and whatever other little things that scare him. I need to have someone who is braver than me; if I am a pirate, he has to be the pirate Captain, if I am a pirate Captain he has to be the flying dragon.

~ C. Joybell C.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

~ David Foster Wallace

An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back. An unarticulated crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there -- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving.

~ David Levithan

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

~ Rick Riordan

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

~ Henry Winkler

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

~ Sarah Dessen

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

~ William Paul Young

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

~ Stephen R. Covey

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

~ Toni Morrison

Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

~ Adam S. Mchugh

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

~ Oscar Wilde

If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What you want most you push away from you.You want more than you care to admit.

~ Tarjei Vesaas

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

~ Alain De Botton

The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.

~ Greg Behrendt

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

~ John Green

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

~ Ravi Zacharias

If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.

~ Toni Bentley

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

~ Sarah Dessen

I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.

~ Bridget Davis

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

~ Nicole Krauss

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

~ Oscar Wilde

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

~ John Grogan

Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.

~ Niall Horan

But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

~ Graham Greene

..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

~ Greg Behrendt

Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

~ Cassandra Clare

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

~ Justina Chen

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

~ Daphne Rose Kingma

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to findsomeone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It isfutile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someonewho is capable of significant change; that sort of personexists only in our imaginations.

~ Scott Adams

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

~ Henry Miller