Relationship Quotes

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Margaret Mead

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Swedish Proverb

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

John Gray

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

John Gray

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

John Gray

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

John Gray

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

John Gray

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

John Gray

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

John Gray

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Henry Winkler

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

Anonymous

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. 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

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Robert Frost

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