Old Relationship Quotes

• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Duplicity, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

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• 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.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Money, Loneliness

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• The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Quality, Where You Live

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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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• 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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• Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Pain

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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, Getting Back Together

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

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• Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Two, Healthy

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• Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Relationship, Running

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille"

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• 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 Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

  Duncan Roy

  Age, Filmmaker, Materials

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

  Abigail McCarthy

  Friendship, Real, Thinking

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• We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Iraq, People

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• and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

  Charles Bukowski

  Believe, Writing, Phones

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sometimes, Better Person, Surround Yourself

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• Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Grieving, Enjoy, Happens

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