Inspirational Relationship Quotes

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

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?

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?

Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Fall in love when you are ready, not when you’re lonely.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally

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

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

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.

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.

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.

There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.