Relationships Quotes

From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.

~ Isabel Wilkerson

At times even the best are not good enough.

~ Gina Wings

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

~ Melissa Bank

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

~ Melissa Bank

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

~ Melissa Bank

For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word- Catherine Drinker Bowen

~ Yvonne Finn

Strong personal relationships are characterised by an ability and willingness to do each other favors. Strive to put family first, then your social circle, and back off on efforts to be a social media superstar.

~ Mark Sisson

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

You are not supposed to go out and find love. Love will find you when you are ready.

~ Suzy Kassem

You do not find love. It finds you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos. As our experiences in marriages, families, and friendship teach us, it takes relationships to provide the friction that wears down our rough edges and sanctifies us.

~ Terryl Givens

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.

~ Janice Anderson

Gratitude enables you to be fearless, and to never shy away from reveling in every moment of your life.

~ Janice Anderson

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?

~ Janice Anderson

Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve. But without stability, friendship - real soul-searing friendship, the kind that makes us choose between domination and infatuation and possessiveness and dependence for growth and freedom and depth and responsibility and self-knowledge - is impossible.Stability is what enables us, in other words, to live totally in God and totally for others.

~ Joan D. Chittister

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

~ Donna Goddard

It’s okay to experience the flow of all emotions; however, if we get caught up in feeling pity for others and take on the responsibility of being their ‘savior’, we often take away their power to ‘save’ themselves. If I see someone as ‘messed up’ then I am projecting my ‘messed up’ vibration onto them, so I am unable to hold space. Yet, if I already view them as whole, well, and beautiful – then I am able to be a vibrational key (vessel of Spirit) that uplifts their energy so that it may come into alignment with being whole, well, and beautiful. It’s not that I do any of the healing; I’m simply a mirror reflecting acceptance and loving them for exactly who they are, right where they are. That is all that is ever truly asked of us, to accept and to love.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

~ Criss Jami

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things…or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you’ll drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower…and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I’ll loose you…I keep losing people.

~ Anne Sexton

She got a sense that their time together was valuable, as though she needed to hold on to every minute as if it were their last. He was too good to be true, every moment spent with him magical, so much so that she presumed this couldn’t last forever. None of her good feelings had lasted forever, none of the people who lightened her life managed to stay. Going by her previous luck, from pure fear of not wanting to lose something so special, she was just waiting for the day he would leave. Whoever he was, he was healing her, he was teaching her to smile, teaching her to laugh, and she wondered what she could teach him.

~ Cecelia Ahern

I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you?

~ Nadifa Mohamed

Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

~ Richie Norton

Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.

~ Solange Nicole

I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstepHow did we go from nonchalant conversation me waiting for you to turn me off with corny jokes and mind dumbing conversationto loveTo love and mind blowing chemistry that I've yet to make sense of What are you here to teach me?

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

A great relationship is being with the one who compliments your madness instead of conflicting with it.

~ Marnie Grundman

Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.

~ Suzy Kassem

She was rare, few and far betweenShe suspected he would be as wellAnd the thought of two rare, few and far between individualsDoing all that was necessary for that rare, few and far between Meeting to occurDrove her to write

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Where they come in the perpetual spirit of giving - the house that love built.

~ T.f. Hodge

When I am with you, I am invincible.When I am with you, your kind and loving presence strengthen me down to my very core.When I am with you, I finally know what heaven on earth feels like.For when I am with you, I am the best I could be.I'd rather walk through the burning coals of hell than enjoy comfort and luxury with someone else.For life without you, is not life at all. I love you.

~ Laarni Venus Marie Giango

A woman can only stay in love with a man for as long as she continues loving herself when she's with him. As soon as she starts to hate who she has become while in the relationship, she will move heaven and earth to end it. Does she get hurt? Definitely. It doesn't mean that she wants to leave her love for him has faded or diminished. However, just like the most basic rule of human existence, you cannot continue giving what you do not have.

~ Laarni Venus Marie Giango

You found me under the thousand stars, shining above us at the night. You found me and you wanted me to shine for you.

~ Tamara Stamenkovic

I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I Just Wanted To Have Fun.Being In Love Wasn't My Idea.

~ Ahmed Ali Anjum

The way the rain falls then rises back into the clouds only to fall again reminds me of love.

~ Sara Secora

Just because you took longer than others, doesn’t mean you failed.

~ Daniel Friday Danzor

Don't let your focus be so much on how many times you go on a date but how you can build into one another, share and carry each other's vision, complement each other, develop a deeper level of friendship; grow spiritually together and make the little things meaningful. It's beyond the 100% but more about how committed and dedicated you are daily. Love can only truly exist, when you become selfless and focus less on what is in it for you.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Girls like me don't get the fairytales. Because the white knights never want the dirty, damaged girls. They know there's nothing left of us that's salvageable...nothing left of us that hasn't already been taken and destroyed. And saving us? Will only ruin them.

~ Ashley Jade

Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

~ Timothy Joshua