Difficult Relationship Quotes

• Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.

  Doreen Virtue

  Patience, Spiritual, Blessing

  Doreen Virtue, Grant Virtue (2010). “Angel Words: Visual Evidence of How Words Can Be Angels in Your Life”, p.69, Hay House, Inc

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• If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Relationship, Baseball

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• No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Relationship, Hate

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• The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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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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• 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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• In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Troubled Relationship, Littles, Complicated Relationship

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• Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

  Joel Osteen

  Rough Edges, People, Use

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• Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

  Barbara Pease

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Allan Pease, Barbara Pease (2016). “Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How to spot the differences in the way men & women think”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break.

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Broken Heart

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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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• ...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

  Joan Bauer

  Forgiving, Reason, Teach

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• But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Hate, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

  Fay Weldon

  Want, Littles, Quiet

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• A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

  Brian Weiss

  Loss, Opportunity, Soul

  FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Dec 19, 2011

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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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• Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

  Lee Radziwill

  Difficult

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• I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Son, Father And Son

  "Salman Rushdie: Beyond the tabloids". Interview with Hector Tobar, articles.latimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Dump ‘Em is the non-confrontationalist’s dream. With her easy-to-follow scripts and step-by-step plans, Jodyne Speyer provides a clear roadmap for ending even the most difficult relationships.

  Marci Shimoff

  Dream, Ems, Scripts

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• I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Years, Okay

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• More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

  Brian Weiss

  Loss, Opportunity, Soul

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• I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Sleep, Thinking

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