When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
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.
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
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.
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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 dimension 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.
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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.
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.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?
It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.
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.
Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.
If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.
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