Loving Relationships Quotes

• You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Father, Son, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Relationship, Thinking

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.120, Penguin

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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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• Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Relationship, Spiritual

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Endless Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Relationship, Children, Giving

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

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• A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Heart, Soul, Celebrate

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• All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

  Bell Hooks

  Lasts, Lifetime

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important responsibility you can have. God wants us to have a loving relationship with our kids and help them grow...just like God's relationship with us.

  John Harbaugh

  Children, Father, Kids

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• Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Doors, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

  Jean Craighead George

  Cat, Self, Humans

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• When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Relationship, Space

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• I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have to live with, and I believe that our destiny as human beings is to become nature-conscious as well as self-conscious, living in loving relationship and in balance and in harmony, not only with one another, but with the entire natural world.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Destiny, Animal

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love Is, Blooming, Wells

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• We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

  John Piper

  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

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• When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Thinking, Quality

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• I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

  Emily Blunt

  Mom, Queens, Kids

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• If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems worthy. Many of us feel we're falling short and if we start feeling close to another person, that we'll be found out and rejected.

  Tara Brach

  Fall, Kids, Feelings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Creating, Components

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

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