Relationships Quotes

I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego turned itself into a virus. First it took over my mind, then my heart, and finally attempted to destroy my soul by corrupting me with fear and guilt. Therefore, with as much energy as I could gather, I trapped the ego within my anger and pulled it out of me. Once on the floor, the ego begged me for mercy and compassion, promising to give me joy in return. I allowed it once again into my life, and again, it tried to hurt me once more, this time with abandonment. So I unveiled the ego for what it truly was, and that was resentment filled with desire for power, a power the ego was feeding from me, from my compassion and willingness. Now unprotected by deceit, the ego shown itself weak and scared. In panic, it run from me, boasting a delusional victory. And when it looked back, searching for another chance, I stepped on it. But believe me, it hurt me far much more than it hurt the ego.

~ Robin Sacredfire

After one my breakups, my former girlfriend said we have misunderstandings. We never had. It's just that I was living for the future while she was living for the tomorrow. I couldn't wait for someone unwilling to grow up and able to keep only short term promises.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.

~ Ben Marcus

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

And then it hit me—I don’t have to participate in these toxic conversations.But if I choose to, I can set a different example. I can bring love to the moment, regardless of the response.I can choose to be kind, no matter what.My power lives in my love.

~ Scott Stabile

There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine for some and poison for others. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I have learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call wisdom... Seeds of knowledge that have been watered by tears and flowers of hope that are nourished by love... It's a garden of experience made beautiful by self acceptance... The insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow.

~ Steve Maraboli

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious of a great part of our movements. In order to take one single step, it seems, we displace an infinite number of muscles, and yet, thanks to this automatism, we are unaware of it. The same thing happens in our relations with other people.

~ Alberto Moravia

Calling bullshit on something thats exactly what you want to hear is certainly among life's bigger challenges

~ Sara Eckel

Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!

~ Colleen Oakley

Nothin' baby. You just get close too quickly because you've got a big heart and you want a big love.

~ Robert Winter

The road to calmer relationships therefore isn’t necessarily about removing points of contention. It’s rather about assuming that they are going to happen and that they will inevitably require quite a lot of time and thought to address

~ The School Of Life

One relationship didn't work out, but that doesn't mean relationships never work out. One single experience isn't representative of all of them.

~ Sarah Morgan

No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.

~ Sarah Morgan

I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

~ Catherine Lacey

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

~ Catherine Lacey

How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?

~ Nico J. Genes

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

~ Simone Weil

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

~ Italo Calvino

After years of breaking Rules and settling for random hookups, she finally meets a cute guy and after one kiss she has an aha! moment. She realizes that she does want a healthy loving relationship, not just a lot of texting and sex.

~ Ellen Fein

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

~ Laurie R. King

Whether we are trying to buy a packet of chips or getting to know a person for a potentially important relationship, its nice to have an overview of what it/he/she contains. - Of A Sense of Self

~ Amrita Sarkar

Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.

~ Amor Towles

Find your flock and fly.

~ Jennifer Coletta

I hate you, not because you broke my heart but because you broke my trust.

~ G.k. Dutta

There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don’t have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law...

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). Only the relationship with the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] is real. He has infinite compassion for you. He has become one with his soul [atma swaroop] and therefore he brings forth all your solutions (and liberates you).

~ Dada Bhagwan

People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble.

~ Dada Bhagwan

I believe there are no wrong decisions, just different consequences.

~ Liimu Mcgill

I believe that I can teach my children to follow their dreams by following my own.

~ Liimu Mcgill

How can I shut downIf you don't open up??

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relationships with a closed heart. How can one give love when the heart is closed?

~ Val Uchendu

The best ones, are not the perfect ones.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Self-care is how you take your power back.

~ Lalah Delia

Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.

~ Weike Wang

You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth.

~ Sarah J. Maas

My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It’s something you need to see for yourself.

~ Maria La Serra

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

In your search for love, be cautious. The miserable truth is that predators can be extraordinary fakers, and they are out there searching for their next victim. Look inside than the words they say to you. Try not to overlook warnings or any inclination you have that something is not exactly right.

~ G.k. Dutta