Relationship Quotes - Page 5

• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

  Steve Harvey

  Success, Faith, Harvey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Twitter post from Oct 31, 2012

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• To live without loving is not really to live.

  Moliere

  Love

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• The people who matter will recognize who you are.

  Alan Cohen

  Communication, People, Matter

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Money, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Romantic, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Money, Self, Ties

  Marcel Proust (1934). “Remembrance of Things Past”

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• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Healing, Years

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Famous Love, Money, Hippie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mean, Long, Energy

  "The Last Song". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 1, 2009.

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• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Playing Games, Expectations, Political

  "Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1984.

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• Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Love, Funny, Dog

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• Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

  James Dobson

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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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, Smile

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• The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.

  Brian Tracy

  Marriage, Couple, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 10, 2012

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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• I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

  Elayne Boosler

  Humorous, Men, Solitude

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

  Zig Ziglar

  Money, Attractiveness, Built

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.74, Pelican Publishing

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  Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

  John Barrymore

  Sexy, Witty, Time

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• So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

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• It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

  Anthony Storr

  Love, Money, Real

  Anthony Storr (1961). “The Integrity of the Personality”

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