Relationship Quotes

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Please, touch me, I pray.

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?

You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?

That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

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

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong, and evoke things that will make you feel better. You've got to beat the drum that makes you feel good when you beat it. And when you do, you'll be a strong signal of influence that will help them to reconnect with who they are.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private.

Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

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.