Troubled Relationship Quotes

• 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.

  Gillian Anderson

  Relationship, Night, Just Friends

  "The X-Files: The Rain King". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

  Gil Kane

  Mouths, Bigs

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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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• Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

  Wayne Dyer

  Relationship, Missing, Self Centered

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• I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.

  Woody Allen

  Relationship, Moving, Thinking

  Annie Hall (motion picture) (1977). Cowritten with Marshall Brickman.

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• Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

  Gillian Anderson

  Relationship, Lasts, X Files

  "Fictional character: Dana Scully". "The X-Files/ The Rain King", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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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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• Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Broken Heart, Silence, Sticks And Stones

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• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom.

  Byron Katie

  Relationship, Mistake, Anger

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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• If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

  Regina Brett

  Funny, Relationship, Women

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• That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.

  Murray Bowen

  Relationship, Creating, Fixing

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• The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Family, Marriage, Husband

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• As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

  Scott Means

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Littles, Complicated Relationship, Affair

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• I'm confused tell me where we go wrong? I was sure that I would be with you for so long.

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Break Up

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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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• Things didn't work between the two of them, because they loved the same person. He loved her and she loved herself

  Ravinder Singh

  Love, Two, Persons

  Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.144, Penguin UK

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• Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
  but do not expect to reach the promised land
  without going through some wilderness together.

  Charlie W Shedd

  Heart, Land, Together

  Charlie W. Shedd (2012). “Letters to Karen: A Father's Advice On Keeping Love in Marriage”, p.130, Abingdon Press

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