Perfect Relationship Quotes

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Relationship, Spiritual

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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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• 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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• 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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• An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Money, Loneliness

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• There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Relationship, Perfect, Advice

  "Exclusive! Jesse Metcalfe Shares His Happy Relationship Secrets". Interview with Gerri Miller, www.yourtango.com. August 7, 2013.

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• And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Order, Back Love

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

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• Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Two, Healthy

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• Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Cute, Relationship, Anniversary

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• The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly
  themselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Unconditional Love, Reflection

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Relationship, Leaps And Bounds

  Joyce Meyer (2004). “Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year”, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Relationship, Flower, Butterfly

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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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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• It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Relationship, People, Perfect

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• I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Perfect, Excuse

  "Office affairs". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear driving us beyond the natural wish to improve. It's really the refusal to acknowledge that life - including ourselves - is simply not perfect.

  Roger Housden

  Jobs, Perfect, House

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Made in the perfect image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Adventure, Long, Perfect

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.

  Anne Enright

  Children, Kids, Perfect

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

  Oswald Chambers

  Perfect, Purpose, Use

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.693, Discovery House

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• An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Almost Perfect, Roots

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• I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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