Relationship Quotes

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

A relationship means you come together to make each other better. It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about them. Its all about the relationship. Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other. Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

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.