Bad Relationship Quotes

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Family, Broken Heart

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

  Dionne Warwick

  Doubt, About Yourself, Can Do

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• Love cannot live where there is no trust.

  Edith Hamilton

  Trust, Cupid, Mythology

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion!

  Greg Behrendt

  Pain, Confusion, Confusing

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• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

  Wayne Dyer

  Relationship, Missing, Self Centered

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• If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

  Curtis Jackson

  Next, Causes, Endure

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Positivity, Negative People

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

  Danny DeVito

  Two, Skulls, Dilemma

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• We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

  Harville Hendrix

  Relationship, Healing, Born

  Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. (2007). “Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Moon, Two

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Being Single, Thinking, People

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• War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

  Richard K. Morgan

  War, Want, Courses

  Richard K. Morgan (2004). “Broken Angels”, p.9, Del Rey

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• Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

  Barbara Pease

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Allan Pease, Barbara Pease (2016). “Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How to spot the differences in the way men & women think”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

  Steve Martin

  Successful, People, Sad Relationship

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  When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

  Dave Barry

  Leadership, Business, Crazy

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Fighting, Nuts

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2006.

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