The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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.
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.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
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
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
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.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Things must be felt with the heart.
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.
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
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?
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.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
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