The best quotes about Relationships

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.

Doing things you don't want to do is how you make a relationship work.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

The true test of a relationship is traveling together.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

In the cold you wrap me. In my uncertainty you listen. In all my joys you celebrate. At every turn you meet me with competence and grace. What a fine dance we have together.

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

'People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.'

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

You can be in a relationship for two years and feel nothing. You could be in a relationship for two weeks and feel everything. Time is not a measure of love.

Not every Relationship is meant to last forever. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to take a step back and give yourself a chance to breath.

Don't be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away.

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.

If you knew how lonely my life has been
And how long I've been so alone
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along
And change my life the way you've done.

A man once asked his father, 'Father, how will I ever find the right woman?'
His father replied 'Forget finding the right woman, focus on being the right man.'

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

And if you're lucky, if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back.

The best relationship is when you two can act like lovers and best friends. It's when you have more playful moments than serious moments. It's when you can joke around, have unexpected hugs, and random kisses. It's when you two give each other that specific stare and just smile. It's when you'll rather chill inside to watch movies, eat junk food, and cuddle than go out all the time. It's when you'll stay up all night just to settle your arguments and problems. It's when you can completly act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.

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.

Ted: 'So this is what you guys do? You invite other couples over for dinner, to judge them and feel superior?'
Lily: 'Oh, grow up, Ted, that's why any couple invites anyone over ever!'