Happy Relationship Quotes

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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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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• If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Mirrors, Important

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.181, Hay House, Inc

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• Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

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• The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Giving, Getting Back Together

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.

  Marci Shimoff

  Relationship, Positive, Happy

  Marci Shimoff (2008). “Happy For No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy From the Inside Out”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Couple, Individual Differences

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.209, Penguin

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• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

  Rob Ford

  Love, Happy, Marriage

  "Rob Ford: 'Enough To Eat' Comment Met With Disgust". www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 14, 2013.

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

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Relationship, Thinking

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.120, Penguin

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Relationship, Spiritual, Inspirational Love

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• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along.   As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Successful, Compassion

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• Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

  Wayne Dyer

  Practice, Keys, Grudge

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 21, 2015

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Duplicity, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

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