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Relationship Quotes


"Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people's opinions and/or expectations."


"The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them."


"When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict."


"Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends."


"A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out."


"This is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths."


"I've learned that just because I don't know how to break up with someone, doesn't mean they were worth keeping."



"We all deserve to have a relationship with God."


"Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself - whilst trying to win someone's love."


"Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants."


"Peace is possible with understanding of each other. Understanding is love for one another."


"You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."


"Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience."



"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."


"And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me."


"Our service for one another is a service to humanity."


"Desire speaks, passion shouts, lust screams, and love whispers."


"There is no friendship, without forgiveness."


"Lovers are always together in heart, mind and soul."


"There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.There's only one of him."


"Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage."


"Love with a kind heart is what we can give to each other."


"We live life not only for ourselves but for others."



"I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."


"My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress-what would be the point? He'd already been watching me fall apart for months now, watching me behave like a madwoman (we both agreed on that word), and I only exhausted him. We both knew there was something wrong with me, and he'd been losing patience with it. We'd been fighting and crying, and we were weary in that way that only a couple whose marriage is collapsing can be weary. We had the eyes of refugees."


"Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate."


"When we begin to love and care for each other, we will share our challenges."


"If a man treats you like a princess, he deserves to be your king."


"The key to every human heart is love."


"If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale."


"We must keep together, we belong to each other."


"Those who don't care about the positive side of you, are too dangerous to have on your side."


"Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love."


"Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them."


"Wherever, I am, you will always be in my heart."


"We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith."


"Finding a wife is easy, keeping her happy takes work."


"Be the "Liker""If you want to be liked, BE THE LIKER! This was some of the best advice my enlightened mother ever gave me. Throughout my childhood, teen years, and adulthood, this golden nugget of simple wisdom empowered me to take personal responsibility for developing friendships. When you want to reach out, make new friends, and increase your likeability factor, step up and "like others first. They will usually mirror your initiative and like you back."


"When it comes to friendship, you should always focus on quality instead of quantity."



"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."



"Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that."


"This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner.""So that she can make her feel bad and weird?""Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?"Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?"


"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."


"The bond of love, the bond of peace."



"This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going."


"If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait."


"You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own."



"Now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don't want anything personal, let's just do it, I don't want to get involved, got it? she kicked off her high-heeled shoes, sure, he said, standing there, let's just pretend that we've already done it, there's nothing less involved than that, is there? what the hell do you mean? she asked. I mean, he said, I'd rather drink anyhow. and he poured himself one. it was a lousy night in Vegas and he walked to the window and looked out at the dumb lights. you a fag? she asked, you a god damned fag? no, he said. you don't have to get shitty."


"A woman loves purposeful commitment."
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