300+ Relationship Quotes For Him Or Her

Your relationships will come and go over the course of your life. There will be enduring friendships and romantic relationships that change your life. Of course, poisonous settings, traumatic breakups, and grieving following a friend’s loss of contact will also occur.

These connections help you learn more about who you are and about strong, occasionally elusive love. Whether you are dating someone new, seeking for a romantic love message to mark a significant anniversary, or looking for a way to tell a close friend, “I miss you,” relationship quotes can help you manage these complex feelings and put into words how much a person means to you.

Nobody ever claimed that dating is simple. Around a new person you have strong feelings for, you could experience anxiety. You might be challenging to find creative ways to express your thoughts to your partner now that your relationship is long distance. Or perhaps you’re seeking for the ideal Valentine’s Day saying that sums up everything you and your lover have experienced and learned over the years (or even decades). The best relationship quotes can help you express your love in fresh and meaningful ways as well as say the things you want to say but don’t know how to say them.

When you meet a new love interest or need wise counsel about love, refer back to these relationship quotes.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ― J.K. Rowling
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ― Jess C. Scott
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ― Carl Gustav Jung
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. ― Stephanie Perkin
A man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. ― Candace Bushnell
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. ― Ernest Hemingway
I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? ― Nicholas Sparks
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ― Donald Miller
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from. ― Mae West
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. ― Shmuley Boteach
If the conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ― Nicholas Sparks
I know I am but summer is to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love, Love will make us. ― Julio Cortázar
Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. ― Rainbow Rowell
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. ― Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with. ― Candace Bushnell
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. ― Oscar Wilde
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. ― Steve Maraboli
I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it. ― Taylor Swift
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ― Ken Kesey
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ― Martha Gellhorn
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. ― Suzanne Collins
When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. ― Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ― David Richo
Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up. ― Patti Callahan Henry
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray. ― Albert Camus
Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside ― Sarah Dessen
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust. ― Nicholas Sparks
I know my heart will never be the same
But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay ― Sara Evans
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ― Bill Maher
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. ― Stephanie Klein
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. ― L. Frank Baum
nothing in this world was more difficult than love. ― Gabriel García Márquez
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. ― Patrick Rothfuss
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. ― Shannon L. Alder
Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier. ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ― Henry Winkler
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. ― Sue Monk Kidd
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ― Dale Carnegie
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell. ― Brandon Sanderson
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. ― Lorrie Moore
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. ― Haruki Murakami
It’s probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he’s absolutely lethal. ― Charlaine Harris
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing. ― Jandy Nelson
The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms. ― Pandora Poikilos
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart. ― Shannon Alder
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. ― Bernard Branson
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. ― Marian Keyes
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. ― Deepak Chopra
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. ― Oscar Wilde
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time. ― Brian Andreas
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. ― Mandy Hale
Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. ― Christina Westover
When what you hear and what you see don’t match, trust your eyes. ― Dale Renton
We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams. ― Kate Chisman
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. ― Tim McGraw
If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked. ― Gilles Deleuze
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. ― Mandy Hale
We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you. ― André Aciman
Don’t worry about hurting me, if that’s what you’re afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change. ― Katie Kacvinsky
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them. ― Alain de Botton
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. ― Mandy Hale
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ― Stephen R. Covey
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. ― Haruki Murakami
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. ― William P. Young
You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do. ― Jodi Picoult
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. ― Aberjhani
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her. ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can’t read your mind. ― Nedra Glover Tawwab
Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears. ― Anne Frank
Relationships are not difficult, people are. ― DrB!
Everyone is bad in this world but you are good.” If somebody says this to you, don’t be so happy. You’re soon going to enter in their list of bad people. ― Shunya
Crystal needed a plan; a procedure for dealing with her feelings… That was the problem with relationships. They defied logic. ― Laelia Starla
The beginning of the end of any relationship is when one individual begins to ignore the other person. ― Germany Kent
It is ironic that the very ties that bind a husband and wife in theory- home and family- often serve to separate them in fact. ― Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Love is only insured in Grace the Heartbeat of God’s mercy. Love isn’t what we say it is; Love is God’s language of unselfishness dished on a plate of Sacrifice and Grace. ― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai
Spend time building your marriage, pray, and speak life into each other’s destiny for the success of your marriage is dependent on what you declare on each other. ― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai
A mind without Christ is a reservoir filled with Crisis ― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai
We fall in mad love and mad hatred with our fantasies, not with real people. No real person deserves mad love and mad hatred. ― Shunya
Cheating fuels some people’s never-ending endeavours to maintain the false impression that their relationships or marriages are not dead. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Instead of an unstoppable force for good and justice in the world and a deadly threat to the Enemy, male-female relationships have been dismantled of power. ― Carolyn Custis James
It’s not just about sharing happy moments. It’s about surviving the tough times together. ― Garima Soni
You always need two people to save a relation. ― Garima Soni
It is easy to ask someone to change but difficult to change yourself for someone. ― Garima Soni
Value people who understand the soft intentions behind your harsh words. ― Garima Soni
The Key to Peace: Stop blaming each other. Do better next time. ― Signe Knutson
Living alongside each other, not with each other. ― Fredrik Backman
Even now after all he’s done, I’m still waiting for his attention. ― Chibundu Onuzo
When I needed the comfort of your presence. All that you gave me was this loneliness. ― Garima Soni
Alone. Is anyone listening? Without prejudice, without motive, without preaching, without judgement, without bullying, without ego. With heart alone. ― Lorin Morgan-Richards
Married life will become a hell if it is not based on love, trust & mutual respect. ― Pawan Pandit
Never expose your spouse ― Pawan Pandit
I don’t know what would I do without you. ― Garima Soni
Sometimes putting your best foot forward is a misstep. Sometimes you are stepping into the feculence of a mongrel. Be careful who you give your best efforts to. ― Nate Hamon
Playfulness and Passion… Friendship and Intimacy… I want a relationship with a good flirt to roast ratio. ― Steve Maraboli
Disrespect prevents love from growing. ― Anoir Ou-Chad
Without jealousy, the flame of love will be extinguished. ― Mwanandeke Kindembo
Your pain won’t impress anyone. The people your pain does impress aren’t worth impressing. ― Alex McElroy
You know, he is going to stay forever every single time he fights for you, for the relationship and not with you. ― Jyoti Patel

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
“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
“Love is a game that two can play and both can win.” – Eva Gabor
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” – Stephanie Perkins
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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” – Jeanna Moreau
“It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” – Leo Buscaglia
“In relationships, the little things are the big things.” – Stephen Covey
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alain de Botton
“Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won’t cry, lips that won’t lie, and love that won’t die.” – Wiz Khalifa

Relationship quotes to inspire and teach

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
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“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon
“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” – George Eliot, ‘Adam Bede’
“It’s a humbling thing when you find someone to love. Even better if you’ve been waiting your whole life.” – George Clooney
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” – Kahlil Gibran
“There’s no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you’ll reap the rewards.” – Jesse Metcalfe
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Beyoncé
“I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Relationship quotes to encourage you

“Stick to the basics: Hold on to your family and friends—they will never go out of fashion.” —Niki Taylor
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow
“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.” —Oprah Winfrey
“If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson

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“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” —Walter Winchell
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” —Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” —Mother Teresa
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – A.A. Milne

Relationship quotes to motivate you on your journey together

“The biggest difference trust makes in any relationship – and not just an intimate one – is that you can relax, be open, be yourself.” – Mira Kirshenbaum
“In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwens

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“Being good to yourself equates to having a positive relationship with yourself and higher self-esteem.” – Sophie Winters
“Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” – Dee King
“When you cultivate quality relationships, not only do you feel better and help your friends feel better, but you contribute to an increase of joy, love, and peace in the world.” – Tara Bianca
“Beyond friendships adding to the list of improving life success and happiness, experts also assert that supportive relationships improve our odds of survival by fifty percent.” – Shasta Nelson
“Don’t give up at the first signs of friction: only through clear communication, flexibility and willingness to adapt can you find a relationship that will weather the storms of life.” – Tom Miles
“Our lack of attention means we don’t notice or we miss much that is going on and this affects our relationships.” – Anna Black
“Forgiveness is essential for every kind of relationship we have.” – Barbara J Hunt
“Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.” – Alana Johnson

Relationship quotes for couples

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”— Princess Diana
“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”― Albert Camus
“To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.” – Bill Russell
“If you live to be one hundred, I want to live a hundred minus one day, so I would never have to live a day without you.” — A.A. Milne, “Winnie the Pooh”
“So long as there is a little real friendship and a desire to help each other that is sufficient.” – Nathan Bisrizki
“She was trouble. Chaos really. But her smile. Her smile dared me to fall in love with her.” — Atticus

“Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others; find the positive attributes that they possess.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” – Nhat Hanh
“Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.” – Helen Keller
“Take my love. I’ll never ask for too much. Just all that you are. And everything that you do.” – Whitney Houston

Lovely and cute relationship quotes

“Affection is when you see someone’s strengths; love is when you accept someone’s flaws.” – One Day
“I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Moonrise Kingdom
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
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“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”—Nicholas Sparks

“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” – Boris Pasternak
“You are my greatest adventure.” – The Incredibles
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
“I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicholas Sparks

Relationship quotes to brighten your day

“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.” – Love & Other Drugs
“… When I look at you, I can feel it. And… and I look, and I… and I’m home.” – Finding Nemo
“Since the invention of the kiss, there have been only five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.” – The Princess Bride
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”—Yoko Ono
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make…”
—The Beatles
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“I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.” – Atonement
“But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.” – Lemony Snicket
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
“I would rather share one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Lord of the Rings

Relationship quotes that will make you more connected

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”— Dalai Lama
“If you love yourself you love others, if you hate yourself you hate others, because in relationship with others it is only you mirrored.” – Osho
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“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretending you care about them more than you really do.”— Douglas Coupland
“My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.” – Byron Katie
“Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.” – B. D. Schiers
“Quit wanting them to be the way you want them to be. Just love them.” – Kamal Ravikant
“When your heart has room for everybody then your heart is full of love.” – Fred Rogers

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.” – Seneca
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” – Leo Christopher
“Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Karl Menninger

More relationship quotes and sayings

“When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”— Steve Maraboli
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” – Charlotte Brontë
“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”— Wm. Paul Young
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” – Charles Dickens
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“Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.” – Osho
“Remember to stay away from people who have a problem for every solution.” – Paulo Coelho
“Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it.” – Fred Rogers
“We are so different, yet so much the same.” – Gloria Steinem
“In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
“So much of life is being present with the people you love.” – Shane Parrish
“Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” —Richard Bach
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
“Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” —Benjamin Franklin
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” —Virginia Woolf

Relationship quotes to honor being together long term

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable … for us, forever just won’t do.” – Steve Maraboli
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” –Cassandra Clare
“Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change … I will always keep falling in love with you.” – Karen Clodfelder
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’” – Erich Fromm
“Real love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse
“And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find.” – Jason Mraz
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein

The best relationship quotes about the good, the bad, and the ugly

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Wayne Dyer
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” — Richard Bach
“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” — Oscar Wilde

“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“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.” — Thomas Merton
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” — Julia Roberts
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Khalil Gibran

Relationship quotes for love birds

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” –Agatha Christie
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“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.” – Nora Ephron
“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” – John Lennon
“If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens.” – Barack Obama
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
“I never want to stop making memories with you.” – Pierre Jeanty
“First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.”— Katy Perry
“And I don’t know why but with you I’d dance in a storm in my best dress, fearless.” – Taylor Swift, Fearless

More Interesting relationship quotes

“I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.” — Elon Musk
“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.” — Robert Anthony
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” — Keanu Reeves
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” — Bryant H. McGill
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” — Katharine Hepburn
“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.” — John Lennon

Relationship Quotes to Keep the Passion Alive

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.” – Nicholas Sparks
“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” – Gabriel Garcia Márquez
“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.” – Haruki Murakami
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” – Albert Einstein
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
“Can’t you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that little girl on the bridge, was to bring me closer to you.” – Arthur Golden
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.” – Arundhati Roy
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy.” – Bob Marley
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Jane Austen

Relationship quotes about friendship

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana
“How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.” – Brigitte Nicole
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

Best Relationship Quotes To Have a Strong Bond

“I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.” — Taylor Swift
“No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” — May Sarton
“Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.” — Stephen Covey
“Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.” — Chuck Klosterman
“Work on your relationships… Relationships need renewal or they die.” — Bo Sanchez
“You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.” — Steve Harvey
“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.” — Brian Tracy
“Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.” — Louise Hay
“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” — Kai Knudsen
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Gautama Buddha

Best Relationship Quotes To Help You Know Your Personality

“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.” ― Joyce Meyer
“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.” ― Daniel Handler
“A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don’t have to be the one at fault to be the one who’s sorry.” ― Robert Breault
“I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.” ― Audrey Niffenegger
“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.” ― Justina Chen
“Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.” ― Sonia Choquette
“Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
“Love … is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.” ― Anne Truitt
“Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.” ― Joshua L. Liebman
“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress.” ― Nora Roberts

Best Relationship Quotes To Best Be Yourself In A Relationship

“To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.” ― Joel Osteen
“That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.” ― Murray Bowen
“The three ingredients of a successful union between two … humor, commitment & undying love.” ― Bill Cosby
“I will love you unconditionally.” ― Katy Perry
“If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others … and ourselves.” ― Yehuda Berg
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ― Rumi
“It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t want to be there.” ― Angelina Jolie
“Maybe, it’s not the distance that’s the problem, but how you handle it.” ― David Levithan
“We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.” ― Marianne Williamson
“It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.” ― Eileen Caddy

Best Relationship Quotes To Make It Work

“If you’re in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.” — Montel Williams
“If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.” — Shakti Gawain
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“A relationship isn’t going to make me survive. It’s the cherry on top.” — Jennifer Aniston
“Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It’s about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?” — Neil LaBute
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” — James A. Baldwin
“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.” — Lauryn Hill
“The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.” — Joan Benoit
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James
“The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.” — Stephen Covey

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