Inspirational Relationship Quotes

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Donald Miller

Love, Life, Relationship

Twitter post from Aug 15, 2015

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It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Unknown

Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Miles Franklin

Relationship, Smile, Money

Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

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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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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

Love, Inspirational, Life

Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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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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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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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Relationship, Emotional, Remember You

Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.161, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

Nicholas Sparks

Love, Relationship, I Miss You

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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 Buscaglia

Love, Relationship, Marriage

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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Ben Stein

Life, Motivational, Relationship

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If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

Regina Brett

Funny, Relationship, Women

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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

Relationship, Family, Smile

FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 04, 2015

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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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Fall in love when you are ready, not when you’re lonely.

Simon Nessman

Lonely, Falling In Love, Best Relationship

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Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Bo Sanchez

Relationship, Couple, Work

FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Nov 10, 2010

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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Nicholas Sparks

Love, I Miss You, Missing You

Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

Love, Life, Relationship

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Motivational, Friendship

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Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

Kai Knudsen

Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

A. A. Milne

Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Stephen Covey

Relationship, Trust, Boyfriend

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot

Love, Friendship, Relationship

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