Relationships Quotes

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

~ Emily Brontë

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.

~ Brian L. Weiss

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

~ Tamora Pierce

I had a dream about you last night... you were there.

~ Nicole Mckay

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.

~ H. Norman Wright

Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need a place to stay. That’s the last thing I need. I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.

~ Toni Morrison

In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.

~ Suzy Kassem

I had a dream about you last night. We were plug sockets in the bedroom. We saw only a short part of their day, but we knew everything of it.

~ Michael Summers

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.

~ Arzum Uzun

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word love – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

~ Adrienne Rich

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

~ Andrew Sean Greer

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

~ Cesare Pavese

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

~ Albert Einstein

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

~ George Gissing

It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.

~ G.g. Vandagriff

Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.

~ William Paul Young

You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

~ May Sarton

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.

~ Eric Jerome Dickey

Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.

~ Amy Guth

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

~ Myles Munroe

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

~ Emily Giffin

Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.

~ Kellie Elmore

For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil.

~ Lisa Logue

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

~ Mitch Albom

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

~ Henry Cloud

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it’s also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

~ Grace Helbig

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

~ Ernest Becker

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

~ Joshua Harris

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself.

~ Amanda Grace

Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

~ Robin Mckinley

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

~ Thornton Wilder

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

~ George Eliot

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

~ Myles Munroe

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.

~ Myles Munroe

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2 or 3 page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases. It was intended: a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every Julio Iglesias record ever made. It amused us at the time... But there was an important & essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and 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