Relationships Quotes

We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.

~ Miguel Ruiz

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

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a newborn baby before involving anyone else in their life.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

I spent most of my adult life in relationships some good, some bad. It took years for me to realize that I was the common denominator in all of these relationships and I needed to love me first.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

All good things spring from Self-Love

~ N. Sophronia Crosby

Women are the jewels, but for them to feel that way, they must focus on enriching their body, mind and soul.

~ Linda Alfiori

You don't have to go out your way to validate or prove your worth to anyone who doesn't see YOUR reflection when they look in the mirror.

~ Ebrahim Aseem

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out.

~ Matthew Thomas

The rhythm of the heart...beats twice. Thump, thump. Once, first for itself and then once again for the rest of the body. It's a true metaphor for us. Like the heart we must pump life giving love and care for ourselves first, before extending that gift out to others. The heartbeat of every worthwhile relationship begins with a healthy, humble understanding and appreciation of our own personal self worth. When we do this the power to truly love and appreciate others pulsates fluidly and freely into all those we warmly choose to share our lives with.

~ Jason Versey

When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

~ Rob Liano

Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you didn't make me your world, why should I make you mine?

~ Jenna Alatari

Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships, it cannot occur in isolation.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. In her renewed connection with other people, the survivor re-creates the psychological facilities that were damaged or deformed by the traumatic experience. These faculties include the basic operations of trust, autonomy, initiative, competence, identity, and intimacy.Just as these capabilities are formed in relationships with other people, they must be reformed in such relationships.The first principle of recovery is empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure.Many benevolent and well-intentioned attempts to assist the survivor founder because this basic principle of empowerment is not observed. No intervention that takes power away from the survivor can possibly foster her recovery, no matter how much it appears to be in her immediate best interest.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

To accept responsibility for your own feelings, your own triggers, and your own experience does not mean to stop communicating with others about how their words and actions affect you. You can own your emotions by not blaming others, and still give the people in your life gentle, loving feedback about how they can treat you in a way that helps your healing and happiness. Creating safe spaces is an interdependent process. It's not ever all about you and it's not ever all about the other person. It's about you coming together and working on the dynamics of your relationship together, taking responsibility for your own part and doing what you can to contribute to the well-being of the other.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family situation where abuse might take place. So the survivor panics as her relationship gets closer, certain that something terrible is going to happen. She pulls away, rejects, or tests her partner all the time.

~ Laura Davis

Two broken people don't make a whole! Without U, there is no us! Lord, I'm so thankful that U r the U in us!

~ Evinda Lepins

Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have served you for a lifetime will be called into question. When you make the commitment to heal, you risk losing much of what is familiar. As a result one part of you may want to heal while another resists change.

~ Laura Davis

What are the inner man and woman? Our being consists of two energies: the male and female aspect. Irrespective of if we are a man or a woman, we have both a male and female side.Life develops through opposite poles and tendencies for example yes and no, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, positive and negative, day and night and life and death.Just as electricity needs both a negative and positive pole for a spark to arise, the human consciousness has also two poles. These two poles are the male and female side. The right side of the body represents the male side and the left side of the body represents the female side. We all have both a male and female side, which is represented by the right and left side of the body.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

No. I meant stay with me today. And tomorrow. And every day after.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

~ Rebecca Serle

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

~ Gwenn Wright

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked like, before the fire.' His request surprised me, but I did as he asked. With eyes closed, I projected the exact details of the painting I had poured my soul into. Just as I had experienced his love of surfing in a visceral way, he shared not just the visual beauty of my work, but the love and passion with which I had dedicated myself to it. 'Thank you. Now, it will never truly be gone.' I choked back a sob and went to Mr. K's office.

~ Kimberly Kinrade

She had no idea how she was supposed to act, no idea how to feel. Julian had just made incredible love to her, but he wasn't *in love* with her. He'd stamped himself forever on her--body, heart, and soul--but a year from now he probably wouldn't remember who she was. He'd rocked her world, and yet he was only temporarily a part of it. What was a woman supposed to say? Thanks, stud?

~ Pamela Clare

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that’s a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book.

~ Kathy Griffin

If the ties that bind ever do come looseIf forever ever ends for youIf that ring gets a little too tightYou might as well read me my last rights.

~ The Band Perry

I took your name when I took those vowsI meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now.

~ The Band Perry

Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours

~ Benny Bellamacina

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

~ Anthony Liccione

Jim was the one who told me that my emotional life made him dangle his stethoscope like a snake charmer: my moods weren’t hard to see but they were hard to read, and even harder to diagnose. It was ostensibly a complaint, but I think he liked his metaphor, and liked that our moments of distance were subtle enough to require this kind of formulation. Meaning that I was a complex creature and so was he; that he became even more complex in his attempt to bridge the gap between our complexities; that he could create a complicated image to house this complex of complications. This is how writers fall in love: they feel complicated together and then they talk about it.

~ Leslie Jamison