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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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Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
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Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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Share too much and someone can hurt you.
- Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl
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I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
- Alessandra Torre
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Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.
- John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
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Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
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A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
- J.S.B. Morse
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
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I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
- A.M. Riley
Immortality is the Suck
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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
- Tanith Lee
Wolf Star
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
- François Truffaut
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Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
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Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
- George K. Simon Jr.
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
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When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
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Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
- Cesare Pavese
This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950
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That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself--all the things you are--with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday.
- Emery Lord
When We Collided
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So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
- Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
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It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.
- Michel Houellebecq
Platform
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It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me.
- Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering
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Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.
- Pablo
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I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.
- Raquel Cepeda
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
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Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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Share too much and someone can hurt you.
- Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl
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I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
- Alessandra Torre
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Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.
- John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
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Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
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A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
- J.S.B. Morse
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
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I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
- A.M. Riley
Immortality is the Suck
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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
- Tanith Lee
Wolf Star
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
- François Truffaut
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Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
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Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
- George K. Simon Jr.
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
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When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
- Cesare Pavese
This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950
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That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself--all the things you are--with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday.
- Emery Lord
When We Collided
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So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
- Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
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It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.
- Michel Houellebecq
Platform
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It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me.
- Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering
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Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.
- Pablo
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I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.
- Raquel Cepeda
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Share too much and someone can hurt you.
- Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
- Alessandra Torre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.
- John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
- J.S.B. Morse
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
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I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
- A.M. Riley
Immortality is the Suck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
- Tanith Lee
Wolf Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
- François Truffaut
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
- George K. Simon Jr.
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
- Cesare Pavese
This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself--all the things you are--with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday.
- Emery Lord
When We Collided
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So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
- Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.
- Michel Houellebecq
Platform
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It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me.
- Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.
- Pablo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.
- Raquel Cepeda
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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