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Quotes about relationships capture the complexity of connection, love, and understanding between people. They reflect both the beauty and the challenges that come with sharing our lives with others. The following collection offers insights that may resonate, comfort, or inspire reflection on the bonds we form.   ◀ Back
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A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
- Wendy Shalit
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
- Alastair Reynolds
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
- George Gurley
George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
May the light I shine, be a reflection of those whose spirit I carry.
- Stephen Q Gray
One Voice Of A People
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
....in the midst of the grimness, isn't there an opportunity here?....Can we learn to slow down?...forge a new way of living? Factories are closed and there's no smoke belching out into the air... Roads are empty...Skies are clear...Pollution is way down...Is there a way to keep it this way when we get back to normal? Can we learn from this calamity to limit the way we damage the earth?
- Emily Steinberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Trust is rebuilt through a thousand small acts of honesty, not one big apology.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
If you have to hide it, it’s already harming the relationship.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
The best apology is a changed behavior.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Healing is not forgetting — it is choosing a healthier future.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
There’s a thin line between love and hate.
- Unknown
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
So many of the animals are sensitive, exquisitely attuned to the emotional state of those around them. They can pick up the smallest frequencies of distress or anger, and it can make them act in ways that clueless keepers disapprovingly call "erratic." It's not erratic, though, to be influenced by the mood of someone close to you. Humans do it all the time.
- Emma Sloley
The Island of Last Things
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Most relationships break when one loves blindly and the other enjoys that power. Blind love looks pure, but it often ends in pain. You know love isn’t about losing yourself for someone, it’s about being seen, valued, and loved back the same way. It's about remembering that you deserve love too.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
You can’t give an addict a plan because we can’t follow a plan—not even our own plans. (Especially not our own plans.) Until the miracle of recovery happens, we addicts only ever have one plan: Use.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that someday in the future a magical person would show up, fall in love with me, and fix everything.

Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?

That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Now I keep my circle small… not because I hate people now, but because most people don’t deserve my time, and I am tired of pretending, explaining, fixing, and forgiving for the sake of maintaining relationships. I have realized tiny circles hurt less, feel more real, and leave space for people who actually belong.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
What codependency feels like at first: “You complete me!” or “I will be your hero!” What codependency feels like later on: watching in horror as someone else’s life passes before your eyes; wondering in utter bewilderment where your own life went. The final destination of codependency: rage, emptiness, loneliness, despair. The anthem of the exhausted codependent: “After all I’ve done for you!
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Some relationships don’t break you all at once they slowly take away your peace and energy. You start feeling tired, even when nothing big has happened. That’s how you know something is wrong. Love should make you feel calm and safe, not confused and restless. If you always have to explain yourself or fight to be understood, that’s not love, that’s pain. It’s hard to accept, but some people love in ways that hurt. Walking away from that doesn’t make you selfish, it makes you wise because peace is the kind of love you truly deserve.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Showered and shaved now, they all looked the same: buzz cuts, khaki pants, black jackets. Chacon joked that it was as close as they could get to wearing "FBI" across their chests.
- Maureen Callahan
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I don’t get it. Why am I not important to you now? How do people just stop caring like that? One day I was someone you couldn’t stop talking to, and now, it feels like I never even mattered. It’s strange I still think about you, still miss you, but you don’t. You just moved on, quietly, like I was never a part of your story. And I keep asking myself why. What changed? Was I too much? Too honest? Too real? Too less? Or did you just stop needing me? It hurts, not because you left, but because you made it look so easy.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
You know, insecure people often put the burden of fixing their pain on others, especially the ones they love. I will be honest, I did this too. I thought someone’s presence could heal what was broken inside me. But I eventually realized that no one can fix what’s broken within you. And depending on others only makes you weaker, emptier, and lost. You slowly forget yourself while trying to hold on to them. So don’t do that. Your insecurities are your responsibility. Learn from them, grow through them, don’t pass them on. Because the moment you depend on someone for your peace, you lose yourself.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
By staying close to the people who are your true supporters, you may cut off many relationships that are transactional, abusive or harmful.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
By brightening your beliefs and everyday reactions to things, you may make others more inclined to interact with you and see you favorably. This may make them more likely to respect your inputs and help you out, and you may even become more likely to obtain the outcomes or goals you seek.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
- Wendy Shalit
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
- Alastair Reynolds
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
- George Gurley
George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
May the light I shine, be a reflection of those whose spirit I carry.
- Stephen Q Gray
One Voice Of A People
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
....in the midst of the grimness, isn't there an opportunity here?....Can we learn to slow down?...forge a new way of living? Factories are closed and there's no smoke belching out into the air... Roads are empty...Skies are clear...Pollution is way down...Is there a way to keep it this way when we get back to normal? Can we learn from this calamity to limit the way we damage the earth?
- Emily Steinberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Trust is rebuilt through a thousand small acts of honesty, not one big apology.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
If you have to hide it, it’s already harming the relationship.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
The best apology is a changed behavior.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Healing is not forgetting — it is choosing a healthier future.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
There’s a thin line between love and hate.
- Unknown
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
So many of the animals are sensitive, exquisitely attuned to the emotional state of those around them. They can pick up the smallest frequencies of distress or anger, and it can make them act in ways that clueless keepers disapprovingly call "erratic." It's not erratic, though, to be influenced by the mood of someone close to you. Humans do it all the time.
- Emma Sloley
The Island of Last Things
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Most relationships break when one loves blindly and the other enjoys that power. Blind love looks pure, but it often ends in pain. You know love isn’t about losing yourself for someone, it’s about being seen, valued, and loved back the same way. It's about remembering that you deserve love too.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
You can’t give an addict a plan because we can’t follow a plan—not even our own plans. (Especially not our own plans.) Until the miracle of recovery happens, we addicts only ever have one plan: Use.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that someday in the future a magical person would show up, fall in love with me, and fix everything.

Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?

That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Now I keep my circle small… not because I hate people now, but because most people don’t deserve my time, and I am tired of pretending, explaining, fixing, and forgiving for the sake of maintaining relationships. I have realized tiny circles hurt less, feel more real, and leave space for people who actually belong.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
What codependency feels like at first: “You complete me!” or “I will be your hero!” What codependency feels like later on: watching in horror as someone else’s life passes before your eyes; wondering in utter bewilderment where your own life went. The final destination of codependency: rage, emptiness, loneliness, despair. The anthem of the exhausted codependent: “After all I’ve done for you!
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Some relationships don’t break you all at once they slowly take away your peace and energy. You start feeling tired, even when nothing big has happened. That’s how you know something is wrong. Love should make you feel calm and safe, not confused and restless. If you always have to explain yourself or fight to be understood, that’s not love, that’s pain. It’s hard to accept, but some people love in ways that hurt. Walking away from that doesn’t make you selfish, it makes you wise because peace is the kind of love you truly deserve.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Showered and shaved now, they all looked the same: buzz cuts, khaki pants, black jackets. Chacon joked that it was as close as they could get to wearing "FBI" across their chests.
- Maureen Callahan
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I don’t get it. Why am I not important to you now? How do people just stop caring like that? One day I was someone you couldn’t stop talking to, and now, it feels like I never even mattered. It’s strange I still think about you, still miss you, but you don’t. You just moved on, quietly, like I was never a part of your story. And I keep asking myself why. What changed? Was I too much? Too honest? Too real? Too less? Or did you just stop needing me? It hurts, not because you left, but because you made it look so easy.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
You know, insecure people often put the burden of fixing their pain on others, especially the ones they love. I will be honest, I did this too. I thought someone’s presence could heal what was broken inside me. But I eventually realized that no one can fix what’s broken within you. And depending on others only makes you weaker, emptier, and lost. You slowly forget yourself while trying to hold on to them. So don’t do that. Your insecurities are your responsibility. Learn from them, grow through them, don’t pass them on. Because the moment you depend on someone for your peace, you lose yourself.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
By staying close to the people who are your true supporters, you may cut off many relationships that are transactional, abusive or harmful.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
By brightening your beliefs and everyday reactions to things, you may make others more inclined to interact with you and see you favorably. This may make them more likely to respect your inputs and help you out, and you may even become more likely to obtain the outcomes or goals you seek.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
- Wendy Shalit
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
- Alastair Reynolds
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
- George Gurley
George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
May the light I shine, be a reflection of those whose spirit I carry.
- Stephen Q Gray
One Voice Of A People
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
....in the midst of the grimness, isn't there an opportunity here?....Can we learn to slow down?...forge a new way of living? Factories are closed and there's no smoke belching out into the air... Roads are empty...Skies are clear...Pollution is way down...Is there a way to keep it this way when we get back to normal? Can we learn from this calamity to limit the way we damage the earth?
- Emily Steinberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Trust is rebuilt through a thousand small acts of honesty, not one big apology.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
If you have to hide it, it’s already harming the relationship.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
The best apology is a changed behavior.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Healing is not forgetting — it is choosing a healthier future.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
There’s a thin line between love and hate.
- Unknown
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
So many of the animals are sensitive, exquisitely attuned to the emotional state of those around them. They can pick up the smallest frequencies of distress or anger, and it can make them act in ways that clueless keepers disapprovingly call "erratic." It's not erratic, though, to be influenced by the mood of someone close to you. Humans do it all the time.
- Emma Sloley
The Island of Last Things
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Most relationships break when one loves blindly and the other enjoys that power. Blind love looks pure, but it often ends in pain. You know love isn’t about losing yourself for someone, it’s about being seen, valued, and loved back the same way. It's about remembering that you deserve love too.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
You can’t give an addict a plan because we can’t follow a plan—not even our own plans. (Especially not our own plans.) Until the miracle of recovery happens, we addicts only ever have one plan: Use.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that someday in the future a magical person would show up, fall in love with me, and fix everything.

Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?

That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Now I keep my circle small… not because I hate people now, but because most people don’t deserve my time, and I am tired of pretending, explaining, fixing, and forgiving for the sake of maintaining relationships. I have realized tiny circles hurt less, feel more real, and leave space for people who actually belong.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
What codependency feels like at first: “You complete me!” or “I will be your hero!” What codependency feels like later on: watching in horror as someone else’s life passes before your eyes; wondering in utter bewilderment where your own life went. The final destination of codependency: rage, emptiness, loneliness, despair. The anthem of the exhausted codependent: “After all I’ve done for you!
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Some relationships don’t break you all at once they slowly take away your peace and energy. You start feeling tired, even when nothing big has happened. That’s how you know something is wrong. Love should make you feel calm and safe, not confused and restless. If you always have to explain yourself or fight to be understood, that’s not love, that’s pain. It’s hard to accept, but some people love in ways that hurt. Walking away from that doesn’t make you selfish, it makes you wise because peace is the kind of love you truly deserve.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Showered and shaved now, they all looked the same: buzz cuts, khaki pants, black jackets. Chacon joked that it was as close as they could get to wearing "FBI" across their chests.
- Maureen Callahan
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I don’t get it. Why am I not important to you now? How do people just stop caring like that? One day I was someone you couldn’t stop talking to, and now, it feels like I never even mattered. It’s strange I still think about you, still miss you, but you don’t. You just moved on, quietly, like I was never a part of your story. And I keep asking myself why. What changed? Was I too much? Too honest? Too real? Too less? Or did you just stop needing me? It hurts, not because you left, but because you made it look so easy.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
You know, insecure people often put the burden of fixing their pain on others, especially the ones they love. I will be honest, I did this too. I thought someone’s presence could heal what was broken inside me. But I eventually realized that no one can fix what’s broken within you. And depending on others only makes you weaker, emptier, and lost. You slowly forget yourself while trying to hold on to them. So don’t do that. Your insecurities are your responsibility. Learn from them, grow through them, don’t pass them on. Because the moment you depend on someone for your peace, you lose yourself.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
By staying close to the people who are your true supporters, you may cut off many relationships that are transactional, abusive or harmful.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
By brightening your beliefs and everyday reactions to things, you may make others more inclined to interact with you and see you favorably. This may make them more likely to respect your inputs and help you out, and you may even become more likely to obtain the outcomes or goals you seek.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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