Relationships Quotes

He'd wanted her. Out of all the women in the world, he'd wanted her. Wanted, hell, she thought grinning now. Pursued, demanded. Taken. And while she could admit all of that was exciting, he'd gone one step further.He cherished.She'd never believed anyone would, or could. And had never believed there was enough inside her to give all of those things back. (Lt. Eve Dallas)

~ J.d. Robb

Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

Make your inner foundations strong and secure and then you can enjoy your partner, rather than feeling you must own them.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

~ Donata Joseph

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

~ Ayn Rand

When we stop looking for someone to complete us... We find completion in ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God's creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest of us.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

~ Abiola Abrams

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because of what he or she thinks they deserve. True love is not the life you had, but the life you never realized you could have.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empower Yourself, Empower Your Relationships

~ Pamela Cummins

There's this quote - if there's anything I have learnt about life is that IT MOVES ONlet me tell you, these three words are only first half of the story. The other half is these five words - YOU HAVE TO LET GOIf you continue to cling to your past, how will your life Ever move on. Some effort is required from your end too.

~ Mansi Laus Deo

Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Question. It’s enjoyable to be the one with all the secrets, but in her honest mind – the hidden part that’s always sleeping – the secrets he keeps about when and if give her a feeling inside she’s never really understood completely – a sensation she had as a child when she got to the end of a fairytale where never-ending love and happiness were all but expected and wondered whether there might be…. one last page.

~ Carla H. Krueger

He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw as overly-moral because he has flaws, he has weaknesses. How would his mistakes compare to her virtuousness? She used to dislike the competitiveness at work, the way she claimed she could never really make friends with anyone because everything was always so fake and cut-throat and he used to berate her for it, used to tell her to accept it, to realise the truth about life and relationships – but she wouldn’t take it. She was always thinking too hard about everything, always questioning her motives. Surely, if he’d married her, she’d have started questioning his.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

~ Carla H. Krueger

You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

~ Kemi Sogunle

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

~ Sanhita Baruah

How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

~ Steve Maraboli

By picking him up again, i guess you're just lost, baby. Lost.

~ Ariel Seraphino

There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough.

~ Eiry Nieves

Most women do not have a relationship with God, as they are either unwilling to have one or unaware of how to have one, so they choose a human partner.”“It’s not about gender or age, nor even social conditioning, religious belief or other external preferences. To surrender as Love—in a feminine way—is to become vulnerable, fragile, soft, sincere, open hearted, and “wound-able” as a choice to the alternative of living miserably inside walls and masks, hiding from pain and Joy.

~ Nityananda Das

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty...

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

~ Louis Kronenberger

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Doormatitis: door-mat-i-tis noun; low self-worth. A learned behavior where the infected person allows others to walk all over them, blame them, treat them terribly, always giving the boundary crossers the benefit of the doubt. They make excuses for them, They will give in to guilt and intimidation and give the boundary crossers what they want again and again. P.A. Speers Dictionary

~ P.a. Speers

Do they wish us well?Or hope to see us fail?

~ Jillian Dodd

A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

~ Chris Prentiss

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not keep thinking of all the retorts she could have made instead of just standing mutely in that kitchen. But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo's expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

I want to need you.

~ Amanda Mosher

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

~ Muse

Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?

~ Thomm Quackenbush

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope