Relationship Quotes

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

A relationship means you come together to make each other better. It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about them. Its all about the relationship. Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other. Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community,
organisation or nation.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.

Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.