Relationships Quotes

The world is a chaotic place find a love that doesn't allow a home to have the same feeling.

~ Nikki Rowe

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

~ Liza M. Wiemer

I am getting tired of feeling disappointed. I am getting tired of other people trying to always take my kindness for weakness, I sure don't deserve it. I should assume responsibility and become cold to others and warm to myself. Some call it self loving, other selfishness... I call it respect. Why to give less that what is being given? Maybe I am way too much for you, maybe that is your biggest fear, to feel less.

~ Andres Oliver

You can say the same thing nicely.

~ Peggy Sue Wells

But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.

~ Francine Prose

Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.

~ Nike Thaddeus

Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are or they aren’t.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

~ George Alexiou

Happiness has no time limits or conditions, the only requirement is to give it away.

~ George Alexiou

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

~ Steve Goodier

...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...

~ John Geddes

A girl who travels has learned how to dance barefoot. She’s learned to place her toes in the sand and dance through rhythm, not through rehearsed footwork. She’s learned to follow what she likes, not what she needs to like.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

A girl who travels won’t need a saviour, she’ll need an accompanier. And she’ll need someone who lives that way too.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she’d insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company.

~ Sara Sheridan

In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.

~ S.a. Tawks

Life is simply beautiful and too short to shed tears for something which was never yours. It was time to move on.

~ Anamika Mishra

Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?

~ Gillian Flynn

To me, the simplest gift that a husband or a wife can do for their partner is to remind them of their precious visions, goals and dreams. What a gift that is to have a voice of reason right in your corner when you sometimes need a little nudge to get back on track. To have a team player to cheer you on and to support your efforts is indeed a massive present from the universe. Whomever has such a gift should surely treasure and protect it for all its worth. It's worth is invaluable to the world.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit...DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention.

~ Habeeb Akande

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

~ Randy Alcorn

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Well, I’m just going to say it.I’m listening, Louis said.I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

~ Kent Haruf

Listening to their argument made me aware of how empty my life was, and I hated the life I was living all the more. It was quite obvious to me this lady was deeply in love, for she was fighting for what she thought to be hers. Even though I was dating two females at the time, and stringing a third one along, yet I’ve yet to discover that kind of love. I guess this was why my favorite song was ‘I wane be love’, by the Jamaican reggae super star Buru Banton.

~ Drexel Deal

Loving each other began with longing, weaving her loneliness into his.

~ Leah Kaminsky

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends.

~ Karen Quan

If you're constantly making yourself available to people's whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship - make sure you're not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet forever.

~ Auliq Ice

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

All human beings are alone. No other person will completely feel like we do, think like we do, act like we do. Each of us is unique, and our aloneness is the other side of our uniqueness. The question is whether we let our aloneness become loneliness or whether we allow it to lead us into solitude. Loneliness is painful; solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community.Letting our aloneness grow into solitude and not into loneliness is a lifelong struggle. It requires conscious choices about whom to be with, what to study, how to pray, and when we ask for counsel. But wise choices will help us to find the solitude where our hearts can grow in love.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, 'Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.' But soon we discover that the person we expect to take our loneliness away cannot give us what we ask for. Often that person feels oppressed by our demands and runs away, leaving us in despair. As long as we approach another person from our loneliness, no mature human relationship can develop. Clinging to one another in loneliness is suffocating and eventually becomes destructive. For love to be possible we need the courage to create space between us and to trust that this space allows us to dance together.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.

~ Tiffany Schmidt

We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of people on your journey. The real, secret obstacle that we have against finding authentic, genuine relationships with people is our subconscious fear of growth. If we stick around in the bin of broken toys playing the queen or the king, at least we get to feel some sense of accomplishment at being the most evolved person we know. To find our tribe means finding people we can learn from, people who are better at some things than we are, people who have something to teach. We say we want it, but how many of us fear being a beginner more than loneliness and much more than being in the wrong crowd? There is a strange comfort, a sense of safety, to suffering and loneliness. To be happy, to find our family, we must be willing to let that go.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and sewed and rewove and patched. He wasted, and threw away, and could not evaluate or preserve, or contain, or keep his treasures. Like his ever torn pockets, everything slipped through and was lost, as he lost gifts, mementos--all the objects from the past. She sewed his pockets that he might keep some of their days together, hold together the key to the house, to their room, to their bed. She sewed the sleeve so he could reach out his arm and hold her, when loneliness dissolved her. She sewed the lining so that the warmth would not seep out of their days together, the soft inner skin of their relationship.

~ Anaïs Nin

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

~ Sam Rayburn

Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

~ Ben Marcus

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

~ Carsten Jensen