Relationships aren’t always butterflies and roses… sometimes partners fight and disagree, but that doesn’t mean their isn’t an abundance of L-O-V-E between those two people.
Here’s a list of quotes about all the beauty, work, and magic that it takes to keep a relationship strong.
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“A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
“Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones this time? - Unknown
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you the strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
“You don’t need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely. - Unknown
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them. - Alain de Botton
“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you. - Bob Marley
“Maybe a relationship is just two idiots who don’t know a damn thing except the fact that they’re willing to figure it out together. - Unknown
“If you love someone, tell them. - Unknown
“I felt it shelter to speak to you. - Emily Dickinson
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Before you begin a relationship with someone, make sure that your relationship with yourself is where it needs to be. - Unknown
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung
“Wait for someone who keeps you sane, but also drives you crazy in all the right ways. - Unknown
“The best relationship is when you two can act like lovers and best friends at the same time. It’s when you have more playful moments than serious moments. It’s when you can joke around, have unexpected hugs, and random stolen 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 completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are. - Unknown
“Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won’t cry, lips that won’t lie, and love that won’t die. - Wiz Khalifa
“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. - Doménico Cieri Estrada
“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. - Stephen R. Covey
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin
“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. - Oprah
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell
“Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside. - Sarah Dessen
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. - Andre Breton
“Be with someone that requires you to grow, makes you forget your problems, holds your hand, likes to kiss, appreciates art, and adores you. - Unknown
“Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. - Kaleel Jamison
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. - Joyce Meyer
“The course of true love was never easy. - William Shakespeare
“A great relationship isn’t when perfect couple comes together, but imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Unknown
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. - Lisa Kleypas
“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
“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive. - Christopher Pike
“Love and trust one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. - Unknown
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. - Leo F. Buscaglia
“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
“As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened. - Robert Brault
“Good relationships are not just about the good times you share; they’re also about the obstacles you go through together, and the fact that you still say ‘I love you’ in the end. - Unknown
“All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there. - Unknown
“Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. - Stephen R. Covey
“There’s no such thing as the perfect soul mate. If you meet someone and you think they’re perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction, cause your soul mate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit. - Madonna
“I can’t promise you a perfect relationship, but what I can promise you is that if you’re trying, I’m staying. - Unknown
“Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one. - Don Miguel Ruiz
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac
“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. - Robert Brault
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. - Oscar Wilde
“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. - Julie-Jeanne Eléonore de Lepsinasse
“The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in. The ones that swept you off your feet and challenged every view you ever had. - The Vampire Diaries
“The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp
“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. - Alexandra Penney
“A woman should never invest in a relationship she wouldn’t want for her daughter, nor allow any man to treat her in a way she would scold her son for. - Unknown
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. - Dinah Shore
“No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together. - Unknown
“Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. - Unknown
“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
“As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell. - Robert Brault
“The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. - Unknown
“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. - Robert Brault
“If the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? - Nicholas Sparks
“A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows. - Cella
“And even though he’s fast asleep and rolled away from me, he still has my entire heart in his hand. - Unknown
“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. - Nicholas Sparks
“We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky
“You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her. - Junot Diaz
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. - Elizabeth Gilbert
“The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts you at your worst. - Unknown
“However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the right person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. - Deepak Chopra
“No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want. - Unknown
“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. - Hugh Mackay
“Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison. - Steve Marabol
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. - Swedish Proverb
“Do what you did in the beginning of the relationship and there won’t be an end. - Anthony Robbins
“Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need. - Margaret Mead
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho
“You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults — until you meet someone who likes your faults. - Robert Brault
“Two people don’t have to be together right now, in a month, or in a year. If those two people are meant to be, then they will be together somehow at sometime in life. - Unknown
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. - Steve Marabol
“Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can. - Unknown
“Too many girls rush into relationships because of the fear of being single, then start making compromises, and losing their identity. Don’t do that. - Katy Perry
“A relationship without trust is like a cellphone with out service, all you can do is play games. - Unknown
“True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated. - Unknown
“A relationship is not a test, so why cheat? - Unknown
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end. - Unknown
