Relationships are the intricate connections we form with others, built on a foundation of emotions, mutual understanding, trust, and shared experiences. They come in various forms, whether romantic, familial, friendly, or professional. At their core, relationships involve communication, respect, support, and a willingness to navigate challenges together. They can bring joy, companionship, growth, and a sense of belonging, but they also require effort, compromise, and empathy to thrive.
Relationship Quotes
1. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
— Bob Marley
2. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
— Donald Miller
3. “A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves.”
— Greg Behrendt
4. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
— C.G. Jung
5. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
— Marilyn Monroe
6. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
7. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
— Mitch Albom
8. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
9. “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
— Candace Bushnell
10. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
11. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— André Breton
12. “When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
— Steve Maraboli
13. “One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
— Douglas Coupland
14. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
— Henry Winkler
15. “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
16. “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
— Cornel West
17. “All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
— Marilyn Monroe
18. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”
— Wm. Paul Young
19. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
— Jess C. Scott
20. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
— Jane Austen
21. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
— Maya Angelou
22. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”
— Johnny Depp
23. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
24. “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”
— O. A. Battista
25. “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”
— Charlie Chaplin
26. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
— Ernest Hemingway
27. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
28. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
29. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
— Khalil Gibran
30. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
— Mark Twain
31. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
32. “If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.”
— Dale Carnegie
33. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
— Leo Tolstoy
34. “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
— George Herbert
35. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
— George Bernard Shaw
36. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”
— Maya Angelou
37. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
38. “To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
— Mary Oliver
39. “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
— James Thurber
40. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
41. “Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
42. “One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”
— Jim Rohn
43. “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
44. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
— Elie Wiesel
45. “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
— Bruce Barton
46. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
— Anthony Burgess
47. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
48. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
— Henry David Thoreau
49. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
— Michael Jackson
50. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
— Ayn Rand