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Quotes About Relationships

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
~ Georg Simmel
The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.
~ Parker J. Palmer
I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.
~ Jhene Aiko
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.
~ Louise Hay
From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.
~ Caroline Myss
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
~ John Quincy Adams
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.
~ Sue Johnson
Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
~ Miroslav Volf
Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.
~ Jennifer Lopez
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
~ Stephen Covey
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
~ Joyce Brothers
Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.
~ Gregory Bateson
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.
~ Sarah Dessen
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
~ Herbert Spencer
To live without loving is not really to live.
~ Moliere
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth
~ Marianne Williamson
Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys.
~ Frank Layden
If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end
~ Rosanne Cash
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
~ Candace Bushnell
Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
~ Duane Michals
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
~ Leo Burnett