Relationships Quotes

• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
• Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
• 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.
• Don't smother each other.  No one can grow in the shade.
• For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?
• Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.
• Sticks and stones are hard on bones, Aimed with angry art,
• Words can sting like anything, But silence breaks the heart.
• Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
• I like her because she smiles at me and means it.
• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
• In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.
• 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.
• Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.
• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."
• I felt it shelter to speak to you.
• Are we not like two volumes of one book?
• Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
• Lust is easy.  Love is hard.  Like is most important.
• Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.
• To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
• No road is long with good company.
• If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth.  And to my heart, you already are.
• 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.
• Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
• There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.
• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
• Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
• There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.
• People change and forget to tell each other.
• Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
• Sometimes two people need to step apart, and make a space between, that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room, or silhouetted against the moon.
• 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.
• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
• We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.
• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.