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.
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.
The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
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.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
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.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
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
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.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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