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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.

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We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
NOT YET RATED
Even "meant to be" takes work.
- Donna Lynn Hope
NOT YET RATED
There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
NOT YET RATED
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
- Rollo May
NOT YET RATED
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.
- Harriet B. Braiker
Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
NOT YET RATED
Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception - a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering "real thoughts and real feelings
- Clark Mustakas
NOT YET RATED
One of the most astounding dynamics in human relationships is how the unconscious intuition of our brain's right hemisphere is able to act as radar to find us just the right person to provoke and recreate our childhood attachment relationship ...I've given much thought to the question of why we are designed to be drawn -like a moth to a flame- to the very person who is most likely to resurrect all our childhood anguish. It seems like a cruel hoax to play on two wounded souls.
- Charlette Mikulka
Peace in the Heart & Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your Loved Ones
NOT YET RATED
Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?
- Richelle Mead
Shadow Kiss
NOT YET RATED
More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.
- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
I Am Not Myself These Days
NOT YET RATED
I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.
- Joe McNally
The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters
NOT YET RATED
Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
NOT YET RATED
...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures.
- Andrea Michaels
NOT YET RATED
How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,
And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.
What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?
I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.
Your wife can’t be a banshee—
Or can she?
- Ogden Nash
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
NOT YET RATED
More generally, I fear that we are becoming disconnected from the ideals that have long inspired and united us. When we laugh, it is more often at each other than with each other. The list of topics that can’t be discussed without blowing up a family or college reunion is lengthening. We don’t just disagree; we are astonished at the views that others hold to be self-evident. We seem to be living in the same country but different galaxies—and most of us lack the patience to explore the space between. This weakens us and does, indeed, make us susceptible.
- Madeleine K. Albright
Fascism: A Warning
NOT YET RATED
It´s a funny thing about girls. Every time you mention some guy is strictly a bastard – very mean, or very conceited and all – and when you mention it to the girl, she´ll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn´t keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. Girls. You never know what they´re going to think.
- J. D. Salinger
NOT YET RATED
Men and women —they frighten each other terribly, yet cannot do without each other's horrors.
NOT YET RATED
Some people come into our lives like angels, stitching together our torn pieces and thus keeping us from falling apart. They bestow upon us the gift of companionship,
mend broken relationships, and bring divergent lives together.
- Pankaj Giri
The Unforgettable Woman
NOT YET RATED
Most of the time, morality is about the skill of being considerate toward others in the complex situations of life. It’s about being a genius at the close at hand.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
NOT YET RATED
When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability. It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don't trust.
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
NOT YET RATED
Some days she is delicate, vulnerable and soft.
Other days she is a lioness; courageous, determined, unafraid. Always she is a goddess,
a tenacious warrior’s heart. She is you, him and her.
No one is without flaws, yet we are all flawless.
Quite the contraction, still, so very true.
Never underestimate your worth your beauty or your strength.
You are everything you can imagine and so much more.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
NOT YET RATED
One thing he says: If you could be an emotion, it would be spite.

One thing I say: If you could be an animal, it would be a sloth.

But I only say that out of spite.
- Weike Wang
Chemistry
NOT YET RATED
She’s over the top rebellious,
but damn her heart
overflowing with insane love.
She shakes thing up.
Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fits
in nobody’s pretty perfect box.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
NOT YET RATED
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
NOT YET RATED
Even "meant to be" takes work.
- Donna Lynn Hope
NOT YET RATED
There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
NOT YET RATED
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
- Rollo May
NOT YET RATED
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.
- Harriet B. Braiker
Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
NOT YET RATED
Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception - a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering "real thoughts and real feelings
- Clark Mustakas
NOT YET RATED
One of the most astounding dynamics in human relationships is how the unconscious intuition of our brain's right hemisphere is able to act as radar to find us just the right person to provoke and recreate our childhood attachment relationship ...I've given much thought to the question of why we are designed to be drawn -like a moth to a flame- to the very person who is most likely to resurrect all our childhood anguish. It seems like a cruel hoax to play on two wounded souls.
- Charlette Mikulka
Peace in the Heart & Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your Loved Ones
NOT YET RATED
Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?
- Richelle Mead
Shadow Kiss
NOT YET RATED
More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.
- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
I Am Not Myself These Days
NOT YET RATED
I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.
- Joe McNally
The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters
NOT YET RATED
Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
NOT YET RATED
...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures.
- Andrea Michaels
NOT YET RATED
How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,
And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.
What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?
I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.
Your wife can’t be a banshee—
Or can she?
- Ogden Nash
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
NOT YET RATED
More generally, I fear that we are becoming disconnected from the ideals that have long inspired and united us. When we laugh, it is more often at each other than with each other. The list of topics that can’t be discussed without blowing up a family or college reunion is lengthening. We don’t just disagree; we are astonished at the views that others hold to be self-evident. We seem to be living in the same country but different galaxies—and most of us lack the patience to explore the space between. This weakens us and does, indeed, make us susceptible.
- Madeleine K. Albright
Fascism: A Warning
NOT YET RATED
It´s a funny thing about girls. Every time you mention some guy is strictly a bastard – very mean, or very conceited and all – and when you mention it to the girl, she´ll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn´t keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. Girls. You never know what they´re going to think.
- J. D. Salinger
NOT YET RATED
Men and women —they frighten each other terribly, yet cannot do without each other's horrors.
NOT YET RATED
Some people come into our lives like angels, stitching together our torn pieces and thus keeping us from falling apart. They bestow upon us the gift of companionship,
mend broken relationships, and bring divergent lives together.
- Pankaj Giri
The Unforgettable Woman
NOT YET RATED
Most of the time, morality is about the skill of being considerate toward others in the complex situations of life. It’s about being a genius at the close at hand.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
NOT YET RATED
When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability. It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don't trust.
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
NOT YET RATED
Some days she is delicate, vulnerable and soft.
Other days she is a lioness; courageous, determined, unafraid. Always she is a goddess,
a tenacious warrior’s heart. She is you, him and her.
No one is without flaws, yet we are all flawless.
Quite the contraction, still, so very true.
Never underestimate your worth your beauty or your strength.
You are everything you can imagine and so much more.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
NOT YET RATED
One thing he says: If you could be an emotion, it would be spite.

One thing I say: If you could be an animal, it would be a sloth.

But I only say that out of spite.
- Weike Wang
Chemistry
NOT YET RATED
She’s over the top rebellious,
but damn her heart
overflowing with insane love.
She shakes thing up.
Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fits
in nobody’s pretty perfect box.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
NOT YET RATED
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
NOT YET RATED
Even "meant to be" takes work.
- Donna Lynn Hope
NOT YET RATED
There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
NOT YET RATED
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
- Rollo May
NOT YET RATED
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.
- Harriet B. Braiker
Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
NOT YET RATED
Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception - a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering "real thoughts and real feelings
- Clark Mustakas
NOT YET RATED
One of the most astounding dynamics in human relationships is how the unconscious intuition of our brain's right hemisphere is able to act as radar to find us just the right person to provoke and recreate our childhood attachment relationship ...I've given much thought to the question of why we are designed to be drawn -like a moth to a flame- to the very person who is most likely to resurrect all our childhood anguish. It seems like a cruel hoax to play on two wounded souls.
- Charlette Mikulka
Peace in the Heart & Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your Loved Ones
NOT YET RATED
Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?
- Richelle Mead
Shadow Kiss
NOT YET RATED
More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.
- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
I Am Not Myself These Days
NOT YET RATED
I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.
- Joe McNally
The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters
NOT YET RATED
Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
NOT YET RATED
...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures.
- Andrea Michaels
NOT YET RATED
How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,
And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.
What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?
I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.
Your wife can’t be a banshee—
Or can she?
- Ogden Nash
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
NOT YET RATED
More generally, I fear that we are becoming disconnected from the ideals that have long inspired and united us. When we laugh, it is more often at each other than with each other. The list of topics that can’t be discussed without blowing up a family or college reunion is lengthening. We don’t just disagree; we are astonished at the views that others hold to be self-evident. We seem to be living in the same country but different galaxies—and most of us lack the patience to explore the space between. This weakens us and does, indeed, make us susceptible.
- Madeleine K. Albright
Fascism: A Warning
NOT YET RATED
It´s a funny thing about girls. Every time you mention some guy is strictly a bastard – very mean, or very conceited and all – and when you mention it to the girl, she´ll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn´t keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. Girls. You never know what they´re going to think.
- J. D. Salinger
NOT YET RATED
Men and women —they frighten each other terribly, yet cannot do without each other's horrors.
NOT YET RATED
Some people come into our lives like angels, stitching together our torn pieces and thus keeping us from falling apart. They bestow upon us the gift of companionship,
mend broken relationships, and bring divergent lives together.
- Pankaj Giri
The Unforgettable Woman
NOT YET RATED
Most of the time, morality is about the skill of being considerate toward others in the complex situations of life. It’s about being a genius at the close at hand.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
NOT YET RATED
When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability. It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don't trust.
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
NOT YET RATED
Some days she is delicate, vulnerable and soft.
Other days she is a lioness; courageous, determined, unafraid. Always she is a goddess,
a tenacious warrior’s heart. She is you, him and her.
No one is without flaws, yet we are all flawless.
Quite the contraction, still, so very true.
Never underestimate your worth your beauty or your strength.
You are everything you can imagine and so much more.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
NOT YET RATED
One thing he says: If you could be an emotion, it would be spite.

One thing I say: If you could be an animal, it would be a sloth.

But I only say that out of spite.
- Weike Wang
Chemistry
NOT YET RATED
She’s over the top rebellious,
but damn her heart
overflowing with insane love.
She shakes thing up.
Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fits
in nobody’s pretty perfect box.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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