Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
There's one sad truth in life I've foundWhile journeying east and west -The only folks we really woundAre those we love the best.We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia

Sticks and stones are hard on bonesAimed with angry art,Words can sting like anythingBut silence breaks the heart.~Suzanne Nichols

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin

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

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner
Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti,

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn,

No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb

If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are. ~Anonymous

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
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee,
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore

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
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts. ~Jewish Saying

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine

I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks

I thought when love for you died, I should die.It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.~Rupert Brooke

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin,

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown

I hate the day, because it lendeth lightTo see all things, but not my love to see.~Edmund Spenser

With what a deep devotedness of woeI wept thy absence - o'er and o'er againThinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,And memory, like a drop that, night and day,Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!~Thomas Moore

Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown

If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think upon,And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.~Thomas Otway

Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;Love me no more, but love my love of thee.~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck,
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown

I am tired, Beloved,of chafing my heart againstthe want of you;of squeezing it into little inkdrops,And posting it.~Amy Lowell,

They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. ~Ezbeth Wilder

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. Unknown

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia,

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew

Life is wasted on the living."--Douglas Adams [More Quotes from Douglas Adams]

"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."--Henry Adams [More Quotes from Henry Adams]

"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."--Henri Frederic Amiel [More Quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel]

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]

"Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn."--Marcus Aurelius [More Quotes from Marcus Aurelius]

"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it."--Marcus Aurelius [More Quotes from Marcus Aurelius]

"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."--Marcus Aurelius [More Quotes from Marcus Aurelius]

"Life is a long lesson in humility."--James M. Barrie [More Quotes from James M. Barrie]

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."--James M. Barrie [More Quotes from James M. Barrie]

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."--John Barrymore [More Quotes from John Barrymore]

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."--Stephen Vincent Bent [More Quotes from Stephen Vincent Bent]

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."--Josh Billings [More Quotes from Josh Billings]

"My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other."--Josh Billings [More Quotes from Josh Billings]

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."--Joan Borysenko [More Quotes from Joan Borysenko]

"All I want is a little more than I'll ever get."--Ashleigh Brilliant [More Quotes from Ashleigh Brilliant]

"Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone."--Ashleigh Brilliant [More Quotes from Ashleigh Brilliant]

"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."--Ashleigh Brilliant [More Quotes from Ashleigh Brilliant]

"The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."--Jacob Bronowski [More Quotes from Jacob Bronowski]

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."--Jean De La Bruyre [More Quotes from Jean De La Bruyre]

"O Life! thou art a galling load,Along a rough, a weary road,To wretches such as I."--Robert Burns [More Quotes from Robert Burns]

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."--Samuel Butler [More Quotes from Samuel Butler]

"Life is one long process of getting tired."--Samuel Butler [More Quotes from Samuel Butler]

"Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises."--Samuel Butler [More Quotes from Samuel Butler]

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."--Robert Byrne [More Quotes from Robert Byrne]

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."--Albert Camus [More Quotes from Albert Camus]

"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."--Sebastien Chamfort [More Quotes from Sebastien Chamfort]

"There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."--Coco Chanel [More Quotes from Coco Chanel]

"A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man."--G.K. Chesterton [More Quotes from G.K. Chesterton]

"Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button."--Dan Chopin [More Quotes from Dan Chopin]

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."--Winston Churchill [More Quotes from Winston Churchill]

"Real life seems to have no plots."--Ivy Compton-Burnett [More Quotes from Ivy Compton-Burnett]

"Life is an incurable disease."--Abraham Crowley [More Quotes from Abraham Crowley]

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."--T.S. Eliot [More Quotes from T.S. Eliot]

"All life is an experiment."--Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."--Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid."--Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns."--Charles Feidelson Jr. [More Quotes from Charles Feidelson Jr.]

"The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't mind some people dyingall the timeor maybe only starvingsome of the timewhich isn't half so badif it isn't you."--Lawrence Ferlinghetti [More Quotes from Lawrence Ferlinghetti]

"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first."--Benjamin Franklin [More Quotes from Benjamin Franklin]

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."--Robert Frost [More Quotes from Robert Frost]

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."--Mahatma Gandhi [More Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi]

"When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind."--Khalil Gibran [More Quotes from Khalil Gibran]

"Life is made up of interruptions."--William S. Gilbert [More Quotes from William S. Gilbert]

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life."--Jean Giraudoux [More Quotes from Jean Giraudoux]

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [More Quotes from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe]

"Man wants but little here belowNor wants that little long."--Oliver Goldsmith [More Quotes from Oliver Goldsmith]

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much."--William Hazlitt [More Quotes from William Hazlitt]

"You live and you learn -- or you don't live long."--Robert A. Heinlein [More Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein]

"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over."--Ernest Hemingway [More Quotes from Ernest Hemingway]

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."--O. Henry [More Quotes from O. Henry]

"It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter."--Don Herold [More Quotes from Don Herold]

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."--Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes]

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."--Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes]

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."--Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes]

"And how am I to face the oddsOf man's bedevilment and God's?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made."--A.E. Housman [More Quotes from A.E. Housman]

"Clay lies still but blood's a rover;Breath's a ware that will not keep.Up, lad; when the journey's overThere'll be time enough for sleep."--A.E. Housman [More Quotes from A.E. Housman]

"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."--Elbert Hubbard [More Quotes from Elbert Hubbard]

"I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost."--Kin Hubbard [More Quotes from Kin Hubbard]

"Life isn't all beer and skittles."--Thomas Hughes [More Quotes from Thomas Hughes]

"Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there."--Henry James [More Quotes from Henry James]

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."--William James [More Quotes from William James]

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."--William James [More Quotes from William James]

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."--William James [More Quotes from William James]

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."--Samuel Johnson [More Quotes from Samuel Johnson]

"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence."--Samuel Johnson [More Quotes from Samuel Johnson]

"May you live all the days of your life."--Jonathan Swift (Polite Conversation) [More Quotes from Jonathan Swift (Polite Conversation)]

"Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together."--Joseph Joubert [More Quotes from Joseph Joubert]
"You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive."--Elia Kazan [More Quotes from Elia Kazan]
"A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it."--John Keats [More Quotes from John Keats]
"Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts."--John Keats [More Quotes from John Keats]
"The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop.The leaves of life keep falling one by one."--Omar Khyyam [More Quotes from Omar Khyyam]
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kirkegaard [More Quotes from Soren Kirkegaard]
"Be intent upon the perfection of the present day."--William Law [More Quotes from William Law]
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."--D.H. Lawrence [More Quotes from D.H. Lawrence]
"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."--Stephen Butler Leacock [More Quotes from Stephen Butler Leacock]
"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."--Fran Lebowitz [More Quotes from Fran Lebowitz]
"I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."--Sam Levinson [More Quotes from Sam Levinson]
"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."--Joe E. Lewis [More Quotes from Joe E. Lewis]
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."--W. M. Lewis [More Quotes from W. M. Lewis]
"Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [More Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."--Thomas La Mance [More Quotes from Thomas La Mance]
"Life is a dead-end street."--H. L. Mencken [More Quotes from H. L. Mencken]
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."--Thomas Merton [More Quotes from Thomas Merton]
"My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends--It gives a lovely light."--Edna St. Vincent Millay [More Quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay]
"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."--Henry Miller [More Quotes from Henry Miller]
"Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them."--Margaret Mitchell [More Quotes from Margaret Mitchell]
"The first hundred years are the hardest."--William Mizner [More Quotes from William Mizner]
"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!Throughout the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name."--Thomas Osbert Mordaunt [More Quotes from Thomas Osbert Mordaunt]
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."--John Morley [More Quotes from John Morley]
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."--Malcom Muggeridge [More Quotes from Malcom Muggeridge]
"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."--Ogden Nash [More Quotes from Ogden Nash]
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."--Jarawala Nehru [More Quotes from Jarawala Nehru]
"Growth is the only evidence of life."--Cardinal Newman [More Quotes from Cardinal Newman]
"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."--Friedrich Nietzsche [More Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche]
"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."--Eugene O''Neill [More Quotes from Eugene O''Neill]
"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."--George Orwell [More Quotes from George Orwell]
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."--William Osler [More Quotes from William Osler]

"Fear less, hope more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours."--Swedish Proverb [More Quotes from Swedish Proverb]
"Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing."--Yiddish Proverb [More Quotes from Yiddish Proverb]
"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good."--Bertrand Russel [More Quotes from Bertrand Russel]
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."--Carl Sandburg [More Quotes from Carl Sandburg]
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."--George Santayana [More Quotes from George Santayana]
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."--William Saroyan [More Quotes from William Saroyan]
"The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."--Arthur Schopenauer [More Quotes from Arthur Schopenauer]
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."--Jeremy Schwartz [More Quotes from Jeremy Schwartz]
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum."--Walter Scott [More Quotes from Walter Scott]
"This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive;That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive."--Robert W. Service [More Quotes from Robert W. Service]
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."--William Shakespeare [More Quotes from William Shakespeare]
"One man in his time plays many parts."--William Shakespeare [More Quotes from William Shakespeare]
"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded."--Fulton J. Sheen [More Quotes from Fulton J. Sheen]
"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings."--Alexander Smith [More Quotes from Alexander Smith]
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."--Socrates [More Quotes from Socrates]
"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live;Not where I love, but where I am, I die."--Robert Southwell [More Quotes from Robert Southwell]
"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."--Herbert Spencer [More Quotes from Herbert Spencer
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering."--Mme. De Stael [More Quotes from Mme. De Stael]
"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."--Adlai E. Stevenson [More Quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson]
"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."--Laura Swenson [More Quotes from Laura Swenson]
"May you live every day of your life."--Jonathan Swift [More Quotes from Jonathan Swift]
"The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat."--Lily Tomlin [More Quotes from Lily Tomlin]

"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."--Lionel Trilling [More Quotes from Lionel Trilling]
"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."--Mark Twain [More Quotes from Mark Twain]
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."--Mark Twain [More Quotes from Mark Twain]
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it."--Thomas Walker [More Quotes from Thomas Walker]
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for."--Earl Warren [More Quotes from Earl Warren]"
It is better to wear out than to rust out."--George Whitefield [More Quotes from George Whitefield]
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe."--Alfred North Whitehead [More Quotes from Alfred North Whitehead]
"The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations."--Oscar Wilde [More Quotes from Oscar Wilde]
"The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."--Oscar Wilde [More Quotes from Oscar Wilde]
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."--Tennessee Williams [More Quotes from Tennessee Williams]
"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning."--Virginia Woolf [More Quotes from Virginia Woolf]
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."--William Butler Yeats [More Quotes from William Butler Yeats]

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
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. Norman Vincent Peale
I don't know if I'll marry again. One thing's for sure, I'd never give up my independence for a relationship like I have in the past. Once you have a good relationship with yourself, there is no way you can give it up. Linda Evans
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. Maya Angelou
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. Denis Waitley
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. Anthony Robbins
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. Brian Tracy
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. Swedish Proverb
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. Anthony Robbins
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. Oprah Winfrey
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. Leo F. Buscaglia
There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me. Wayne Dyer
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 F. Buscaglia
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. Anthony Robbins
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
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo F. Buscaglia
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Margaret Mead
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. Wayne Dyer