Profoundly inspirational deep relationship quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
Famous Deep Relationship Quotes
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. – Mark Twain
There’s no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they’re perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction, cause your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit. – Madonna
We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe
You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you. – Ella December
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. – Gloria Steinem
Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still. – Catherine Pulsifer
The moment you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do. – Unknown
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. – Sophocles
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. – David Tyson Gentry
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boose
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. – Joyce Meyer
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ― Donald Miller
What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. – Oprah Winfrey
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one – C.S. Lewis
No matter how busy a person’s day may be, if they really care, they will always find time for you. – Unknown
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. – Benjamin Franklin
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it’s a choice. – Fawn Weaver
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
True love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. – Henry James
Being in love and sharing your life with another takes strength and commitment. But the sense of camaraderie that comes with a lasting relationship? #Worthit! These strong relationship quotes will have your heart skipping a beat.
Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – Karl Menninger
True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another. – John (Owen Wilson), from Wedding Crashers
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. – Anthony Robbins
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. – Leo F. Buscaglia
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. – Greta Scacchi
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. – Elizabeth Gilbert
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. – Leo Buscaglia
He can’t read your mind. So take a moment to let him know how you really feel. – Unknown
A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future. – Unknown
Nobody has ever measured—not even poets—how much love the human heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. – B. R. Ambedkar
The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. – Neale Donald Walsch
Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need. – Margaret Mead
The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in. – Unknown
Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person. – Kermit the Frog
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. – Donna Roberts
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. – Mahatma Gandhi
Lose your pride for your love. But never lose your love just because of your pride. – Unknown
Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Fraklin P. Jones
Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. – Kaleel Jamison
Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do. – Ted (Josh Radnor), from How I Met Your Mother
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. – J.K. Rowling
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus
A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person. – Unknown
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – George Eliot
All relationships go through hell, real ones get through it. – Unknown
There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other, and start fighting for each other. – Dave Willis
Souls tend to go back to who feels like home. – N.R. Heart
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Relationships are worth fighting for, but you can’t be the only one fighting. – Unknown
Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. – Oscar Wilde
A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end. – Unknown
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. – Cornel West
Love alone can rekindle life. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Love is a game that two can play and both can win. – Eva Gabor
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald
Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde
To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with. – Mark Twain
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. – Robert Brault
As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind. – Wayne Dyer
True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another. –John, from Wedding Crashers
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.— Henry Winkler
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. – Wayne Dyer
We are most alive when we’re in love. – John Updike
You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships are not great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work. – Unknown
When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.― Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. – Andre Breton
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
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
True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other. – Michael Bassey Johnson
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton
Sometimes you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. – Unknown
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. – Albert Schweitzer
Relationships include: fights, jealousy, arguments, faith, tears, disagreements, but a real relationship fights through all that with love. – Unknown
Apologizing does not mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego. – Unknown
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
It doesn’t matter who hurt you, or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again. – Unknown
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.― Patti Callahan Henry
Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone. – Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. – Leo Buscaglia
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. – Emily Kimbrough
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. – Morrie Schwartz, from Tuesdays with Morrie
We cannot be sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. – Alan Watts
All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there. – Unknown
When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. – Tom Robbins
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. – Frederick Buechner
If you live to be , I hope I live to be minus day, so I never have to live without you. – Winnie the Pooh
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. – Catherine Ponder
No road is long with good company. – Turkish Proverb
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. – Alexandra Penney
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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 F. Buscaglia
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. – James Baldwin
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. – Nicholas Sparks, from At First Sight
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction. – Carroll Bryant
We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason. – Unknown
We were together even when we were apart. – Shannon A. Thompson
You’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings. – Kathleen (Meg Ryan), from You’ve Got Mail
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. – Diane Arbus
Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different. – Sue Zhao
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them. – Alain de Botton
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. – Bob Marley quotes about relationships
Don’t let someone to change who you are, to become what they need. – Unknown
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship. – Henry Cloud
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.— Andre Breton
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
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.— Swedish Proverb
Whether it is a friendship or a relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing. – Unknown
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. – Doménico Cieri Estrada
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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. – Dinah Shore
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships. – Anonymous
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. – Vincent Van Gogh
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. – Paulo Coelho
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.– George Eliot
Don’t talk, just act. Don’t say, just show. Don’t promise, just prove. – Unknown
Don’t take your frustrations out on your partner. They should be the one person you can go to and feel at peace. – Unknown
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. – Norman Vincent Peale
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. – Joseph Addison
You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person. – Kermit the Frog”
No road is long with good company.— Turkish Proverb
Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone.- Anonymous
I’m not telling you it is going to be easy- I am telling you it is going to be worth it. – Art Williams
If you don’t value yourself, then you will always be attracted to people who don’t value you either. – Unknown
A perfect relationship is not perfect, it’s just that both people never gave up. – Unknown
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. – Henry Winkler
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. – William Arthur Ward
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. – Yoko Ono
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. – Victor Hugo
If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around. – David (Hugh Grant), from Love, Actually
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. – Stephanie Perkins, from Anna and the French Kiss
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.— Miles Franklin
A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master… – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect. – Patrick Rothfuss, from The Wise Man’s Fear
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. – Honore de Balzac
The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. – Unknown
Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. – Anonymous”
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. – Maya Angelou
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. – Michele Weiner-Davis
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. – Dale Carnegie
Find a heart that will love you at your worst and arms that will hold you at your weakest. – Unknown
The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum. – Mandy Hale
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. – Harry, from When Harry Met Sally
Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you. – Unknown
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it. – Marian Keyes
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. – Joseph F. Newton Men
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. – Mahatma Gandhi
I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers. – Niti Majethia
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.– Oscar Wilde
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. – Samuel Johnson
Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. – Ginni Rometty
A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other. – Unknown
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. – John Tillotson
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
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus