Relationship Quotes

Relationships are stepping stones for us to learn from our mistakes, take what we can as an experience, and better ourselves if we are flawed in any way. They give us an insight into what it is like to be in love, to face challenges, and how to pick ourselves up when we're down. Some relationships are beautiful, and some aren't very much so. But we move forward, and stay positive, or cherish what it is we have when we find our greatest love.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There's one sad truth in life I've found.
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound,
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. ~ Keith Sweat

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~ Henry Winkler

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. ~ Stephen R. Covey

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. ~ Gillian Anderson

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you. The one who turns to his friends and says, "that's her".

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ Dinah Craik

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ~ Albert Einstein

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. ~ Russ Von Hoelscher

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. ~ Anthony Robbins

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. ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. ~ Anthony Storr

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~ Annie (the movie)

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~ Margaret Mead

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. ~ John Gray

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

First dates are awkward, first kisses are heavenly, first love is irreplaceable and first heartbreaks are unforgettable.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb