Getting Back Together Quotes

• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Moon, Two

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• Trouble is a part of 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

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

  Domenico Cieri

  Relationship, Soulmate, Keys

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• Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Girl

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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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• There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Break Up, Fire

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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• How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

  Drake

  Relationship, Drinking, Humble

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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, Bad Relationship

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Long Distance Relationship, Missing

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• Deciding to get back together with someone is a complicated and difficult decision. Just remember that the person you are getting back together with is the same person who, not long before, looked you in your beautiful face, took full stock of you and all your qualities, and told you that he was no longer in need of your company.

  Greg Behrendt

  Beautiful, Long, Decision

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Happened, Studios

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

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

  David Levithan

  Inspirational, Real, Together Again

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.110, Penguin

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• If you love something, set it free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Modern Family, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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• Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.

  Sean Covey

  Couple, Forever, Together

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Divorce, Years

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• We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

  Nikki Sixx

  Trying, Fit, Wanted

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