200+ Best Relationship Inspirational Quotes in 2021

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Inspiring Relationship Quotes

Sometimes the best place to start is your own home. In a relationship, it’s easy to feel like you’re walking on eggshells and not sure what will make your partner happy. You’re probably wondering if they are mad at you for something or whether they’re about to break up with you. And that’s why I’ve compiled this list of inspirational quotes from some of my favorite couples in Hollywood history as well as real-life couples who have been together for decades!
I hope these words can give you some perspective and remind you how much love there is out in the world!

The following are relationship quotes to help inspire and encourage you in your relationships. The ideas presented here will be of use to anyone who is currently dating or married, as well as those who want the best for their friends and family members.

Asides from seeing the best love messages for your partner, read the best inspiring relationship quotes here.

Best Relationship Inspirational Quotes

  1. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are ~ Donald Miller
  2. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
  3. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
  4. Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary. ~ Oscar Wilde
  5. One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones ~Turcois Ominek
  6. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain ~Alan Watts
  7. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
  8. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses ~Ann Landers
  9. Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr
  10. Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor
  11. Choose your relationships wisely. It’s better to be alone than to be in a bad company.
  12. The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it.
  13. The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts you at your worst.
  14. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.
  15. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
  16. Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers. ~ Niti Majethia
  17. True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.
  18. We were born in a time when if something was broken, we would fix it, not throw it away.
  19. Don’t try to be everything to everyone. Be everything to someone.
  20. Pain will leave you, when you let go. ~ Jeremy Aldana
  21. Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. ~ Roy Bennett
  22. Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. ~ Ginni Rometty
  23. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
  24. Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice. ~ Fawn Weaver
  25. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~ Joseph F. Newton Men
  26. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boose
  27. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran
  28. No road is long with good company. ~ Turkish Proverb
  29. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
  30. Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved. ~ Wm. Paul Young
  31. You can’t lose something you never had. ~ Kate Hudson
  32. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ~ Honore de Balzac
  33. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. ~ Ronald Reagan
  34. The first duty of love is to listen. ~ Paul Tillich
  35. “Let’s, let’s stay together.”
    —Al Green, from “Let’s Stay Together”
  36. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.”
    —Margart Mead
  37. “We are most alive when we’re in love.”
    —John Updike
  38. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”
    —Edward Thomas
  39. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
    —Sam Keen
  40. “Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.”
    —Joanne Woodward200+ Best Relationship Inspirational Quotes in 2021
  41. “True love stories never have endings.”
    —Richard Bach
  42. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
    —Aristotle
  43. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
    —Audrey Hepburn
  44. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    —Dr. Seuss
  45. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
    —Helen Keller
  46. “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
    —Karl Menninger
  47. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
    —Harry (Billy Crystal), from When Harry Met Sally
  48. “True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
    —Michael Bassey Johnson
  49. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
    —Morrie Schwartz, from Tuesdays with Morrie
  50. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
    —Plato
  51. “Who, being loved, is poor?”
    —Oscar Wilde
  52. “Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.”
    —Ted (Josh Radnor), from How I Met Your Mother
  53. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
    —Charles Dickens
  54. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche
  55. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    —Maya Angelou
  56. “Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.”
    —Anonymous
  57. “Love alone can rekindle life.”
    —Henri Frederic Amiel
  58. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
    —Mignon McLaughlin
  59. “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
    —Eva Gabor
  60. “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
    —Doménico Cieri Estrada
  61. “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
    —Fraklin P. Jones
  62. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
    —Mark Twain
  63. “Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.”
    —N.R. Heart
  64. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  65. “I love her, and it is the beginning of everything.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  66. “In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.”
    —Mac (J.K. Simmons), from Juno
  67. “I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.”
    —Dorothy L. Sayers
  68. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
    —Albert Einstein
  69. “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.”
    —Paul (George Peppard), from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  70. “It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.”
    —William Makepeace Thackeray, from Vanity Fair
  71. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    —Carl Jung
  72. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
    —Jane Austen, from Sense & Sensibility
  73. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
    —Moulin Rouge!
  74. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
    —Erich Fromm
  75. “We humans definitely need other people to keep us human.”
    —Terry Pratchett, from The Shepherd’s Crown
  76. “Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day.”
    “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
    —Anais Nin
  77. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
    —Nicholas Sparks, from At First Sight
  78. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.”
    —Sophocles
  79. “Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
    Patrick Rothfuss, from The Wise Man’s Fear
  80. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
    —William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  81. “True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another.”
    —John (Owen Wilson), from Wedding Crashers
  82. “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
    —Diane Arbus
  83. “Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.”
    —Anonymous
  84. “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.”
    —David (Hugh Grant), from Love, Actually
  85. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
    —Henry Winkler
  86. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    —Marcel Proust
  87. “You’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.”
    —Kathleen (Meg Ryan), from You’ve Got Mail
  88. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
    —Yoko Ono
  89. “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
    —Carroll Bryant
  90. “Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person.”
    —Kermit the Frog
  91. “Nobody has ever measured—not even poets—how much love the human heart can hold.”
    —Zelda Fitzgerald
  92. “The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.”
    —Samuel Johnson
  93. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
    —Henry Miller
  94. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
    —Vincent Van Gogh
  95. “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
    —Oscar Wilde
  96. “Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it’s a choice.”
    —Fawn Weaver
  97. “We cannot be sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
    —Alan Watts
  98. “Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.”
    —Niti Majethia
  99. “Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone.”
    —Anonymous
  100. “Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.”
    —Ginni Rometty
  101. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    —Stephanie Perkins, from Anna and the French Kiss
  102. “Love is like the wind. You can’t see it, but you can feel it.”
    —Nicholas Sparks, from A Walk to Remember
  103. “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    —Robert Frost
  104. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    —Elizabeth Gilbert, from Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
  105. “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”
    —e.e. cummings
  106. “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make…”
    —The Beatles, from “The End”
  107. “We are asleep until we fall in love.”
    —Leo Tolstoy, from War and Peace
  108. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
    — Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
  109. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    – Anais Nin
  110. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
    – Leo F. Buscaglia
  111. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
    – Walter Winchell
  112. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    – Carl Jung
  113. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
    – William James
  114. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    – Donald Miller
  115. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
    — Benjamin Franklin
  116. “No road is long with good company.”
    — Turkish Proverb
  117. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
    — Carl W. Buechner
  118. Relationship Quotes 1
    “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
    — Joseph F. Newton Men
  119. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
    — Swedish Proverb
  120. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
    — Epicurus
  121. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”
    — Albert Schweitzer
  122. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
    — Audrey Hepburn
  123. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
    — Dale Carnegie
  124. Relationship Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    — Mahatma Gandhi
  125. “As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind.
    Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts.
    For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”
    — Wayne Dyer
  126. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
    — Henry Winkler
  127. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
    — John Tillotson
  128. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
    — Andre Breton
  129. “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
  130. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
    — Honore de Balzac
  131. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
    — Miles Franklin
  132. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one”
    — C.S. Lewis
  133. “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.”
    — Thomas Merton
  134. “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
    — Victor Hugo
  135. “Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.”
    — Marian Keyes
  136. Relationship Quote by Joyce Meyer
    “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
    — Joyce Meyer
  137. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
    — James Baldwin
  138. “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
    — Leo Buscaglia
  139. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
    — Eleanor Roosevelt
  140. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
    — Anthony Robbins
  141. Relationship Quote by Dale Carnegie
    “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
    — Dale Carnegie
  142. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
    — Friedrich Nietzsche
  143. “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”
    — Norman Vincent Peale
  144. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
    — Oprah Winfrey
  145. “What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.”
    — Leo Buscaglia
  146. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
    — Mark Twain
  147. Relationship Quote by Henry David Thoreau
    “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
    — Henry David Thoreau
  148. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
    — Frederick Buechner
  149. “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
  150. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    — Gilbert K. Chesterton
  151. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
    — David Tyson Gentry
  152. “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 dimensions 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.”
    — Tom Robbins
  153. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
    — Joseph Addison
  154. Relationship Quotes 3
    “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
    — Tennessee Williams
  155. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    — Carl Jung
  156. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
    — Dale Carnegie
  157. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    — Henry James
  158. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
    — Catherine Ponder
  159. Relationship Quote by Alain De Botton
    “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.”
    — Alain de Botton
  160. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
    — Mahatma Gandhi.
  161. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
    – William Arthur Ward
  162. “What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.”
    – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  163. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    – George Burns
  164. Relationship Quote by Confucius
    “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
    – Confucius
  165. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
    – Albert Camus
  166. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.”
    – Margaret Mead
  167. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
    – Ernest Hemingway
  168. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
    – Eleanor Roosevelt
  169. “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
  170. “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
  171. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
    – Donna Roberts
  172. Relationship Quote by Wayne Dyer
    “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
    — Wayne Dyer
  173. “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
    — Bertrand Russell
  174. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
    — Eleanor Roosevelt
  175. “The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
    — Eugene Kennedy
  176. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    — Lao-Tzu
  177. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”
    — Barbara De Angelis
  178. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
    — Seneca
  179. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
    — Bob Marley
  180. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    — Rumi
  181. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
    — Albert Schweitzer
  182. Relationship Quote by William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
    — William Shakespeare
  183. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
    — Audrey Hepburn
  184. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
    — Julia Roberts
  185. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    — Ernest Hemingway
  186. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
    — Jim Morrison
  187. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
    — Arnold H. Glasgow
  188. “Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
    — Unknown
  189. “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
    — Anais Nin
  190. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.”
    — Maya Angelou
  191. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
    — Mahatma Gandhi
  192. “Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
    — Thomas Hughes
  193. “First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.”
    — Katy Perry
  194. Relationship Quote by Karl Menninger
    “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
    — Karl Menninger
  195. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
    — Ally Condie
  196. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
    — Henri Nouwen
  197. “Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.”
    — Thich Nhat Hanh
  198. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
    — Zig Ziglar
  199. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
    — Charles Dickens
  200. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
    — Mignon McLaughlin
  201. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
    — Amy Poehler
  202. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    — Criss Jami
  203. Relationship Quote by Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    — Jane Austen
  204. “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.”
    — Hugh Mackay
  205. “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
    — Leo Tolstoy
  206. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“
    — Sylvia Plath
  207. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
    — Alfred Tennyson
  208. “A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”
    — Arthur Brisbane
  209. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  210. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
    — Anna Taylor
  211. “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
    — Carroll Bryant
  212. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
    — John Lennon
  213. “Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.”
    — Megan Mullally
  214. Relationship Quote by Marlene Dietrich
    “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    — Marlene Dietrich
  215. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
    — Brandi Snyder
  216. “Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”
    — Gabriela Mistral
  217. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
    — Carl Sagan
  218. “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
    — Barbara De Angelis
  219. “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
    — Eva Gabor
  220. “Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.”
    — Niti Majethia
  221. “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
    — Winnie the Pooh
  222. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
    — Epicurus
  223. Relationship Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  224. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    — Robert Fulghum
  225. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
    — Len Wein
  226. “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
  227. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
    — Maya Angelou
  228. “If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.”
    — Miles Davis
  229. “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
    — Franklin P. Jones
  230. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
    – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  231. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
    – Paul Boose
  232. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
    – Winnie the Pooh
  233. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    – Marcel Proust

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