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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. Select Another Topic
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Wise people help you come up with a different way of looking at yourself, your past, and the world around you. Very often they focus your attention on your relationships, the in-between spaces that are so easy to overlook. How can this friendship or this marriage be nourished and improved? The wise person sees your gifts and potential, even the ones you do not see. Being seen in this way has a tendency to turn down the pressure, offering you some distance from your immediate situation, offering hope.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
I'm afraid I've given you the wrong impression, Sadie,' he said. 'I rather like to be consumed.
- Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
I could have forgiven you. Honestly, I would have, because I understand we all make mistakes. But what I will never forget is how you shoved all the blame onto me and declared yourself the innocent victim.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Some people listen with their ears. Some listen with their heart. The difference is everything.
- Sandra Sloat
We Never Spoke the Same Language
When you are not their priority, you will always get excuses. They will act busy, they will act confused, they will act tired, they will act indifferent they will act everything except being honest with you. And even after this treatment if you continue to be with them, then you are the one teaching them that your time, your love, your presence doesn’t need respect.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act out, control, and self-medicate are just equally desperate attempts to cover up the same deep spiritual pain. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single room in the twelve-step universe that I don’t relate to or qualify for, at some level or another, because my anxious mind never stops looking for ways to escape its host of human dilemmas.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Whatever trouble I get myself into, I promise you I can get myself out. I don't need you for that. I just need you to wait and hold me afterward.
- Abigail Owen
The Things Gods Break
One of the central characteristics of sex and love addicts is that we assign magical qualities to people, and then we become enraged when those people fail to live up to our fantasies, expectations, and projections.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
I know the voice of God the way a blind, mewling, newborn kitten knows the smell of its mother.

The voice said this: If you have arrived at a point in your life where you are seriously considering murdering yourself or another human being, there is a strong possibility that you have reached the end of your power.

I stopped walking.
I listened harder.
I leaned into the sound of God, offering me wisdom and guidance.

That being the case, continued the voice, perhaps it’s time you called somebody and asked for help.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Image management” is something addicts care a lot about, and I am no exception.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
What is the overgiver getting out of this obviously imbalanced arrangement?

Or at least, what do they think they’re getting?

Because nobody overgives for no reason—even if those reasons are deeply hidden or disguised as acts of pure altruism.

So what is the payoff, exactly?
In my case, the payoff has always been love—or at least, the desperate hope of love.

And how far am I willing to go—how much will I extend myself, exhaust myself, burn myself out, or manipulate, seduce, soothe, manage, and control others—in order to get my own hidden needs and hungers met?

Are you kidding me?
To earn love?
I will give up everything I have.
I will overgive myself right to the edge of annihilation.

But only always.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
This book is not only for people whose lives have been negatively impacted by their own addictions or by the addictions of others—although I do believe those two categories will include pretty much all of us, at some time or another. This book is also about the many ways that people—despite their best efforts at living sane and stable lives—can sometimes get swept into high-octane dramas and traumas, finding themselves washed up on shores that can feel very distant from their true natures.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
On the surface, I appeared to be a confident young go-getter. But my inner life was, as it had always been, a tremulous fear-scape. I was neither mature nor emotionally secure, and I wasn’t yet ready for the demands of adulthood. Hidden beneath all my apparent ingenuity was a terrified child constantly asking, “Who’s got me? Who will keep me safe? Where do I belong?” And thus I began my lifelong quest to make other people into my home.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
What are we but stories that touch?
- Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming
Patterns don’t repeat because we’re weak. They repeat because they once felt familiar enough to feel like home.
- Louise Fields
Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
Sometimes the lesson isn’t about why you chose the wrong person. It’s about why you stayed.
- Louise Fields
Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
Yes, I fail at missing you… but don’t mistake that for love, because that’s just out of habit. The truth is, I don’t even want to remember you anymore. Not your face, not your voice, not the version of me that tolerated you. You were a chapter that felt right, but it was a disaster. But now that I’ve grown, I’ve changed, I know the reality… I see you for who you are. So if forgetting you is slow, that’s fine. One day, even your memory will realise it is no longer welcome here.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I’m not here to be explained. I’m here to be heard.
- Nevine Essam
She Spoke — Finally
I want to be chosen every day — even when I’m not at my best.
- Nevine Essam
She Spoke — Finally
....I wasn't being mean or anything. I wasn't scaring her at that point. I was trying, you know, to see like a normal person.
- Israel Keyes
Love doesn’t really end with fights, it ends with silence. Fights still mean there’s care, there’s effort, there’s something to save. But silence means giving up. When two people stop talking, everything slowly fades, the connection, the warmth, the understanding. Not communicating with someone you love leaves a wound that never fully heals. You move on, but a part of you always remembers how silence replaced words, and how love turned into distance without saying a thing.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The people meant for you will feel like rest, not effort. What you carry quietly is often the map someone else needs to find their way.
- Ajmal, from "The Border of a Mind"
Boundaries are the lines we draw around our time, energy and emotions to protect our wellbeing. They are not walls built to shut others out, but fences with gates that can open and close. ... Many people struggle with boundaries because they equate them with selfishness or conflict. ... Yet saying yes when you mean no breeds resentment, which is far more toxic than an honest refusal
- Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner Wo
Now I don’t let betrayal close my heart. Yes, it hurts deeply when someone breaks your trust, but that doesn’t mean everyone will do the same. I have learned to be careful, but not cold, because people are different..some hurt and some heal. I take my time to recover, to surround myself with those who bring peace and happiness. I have learned to forgive, not for them, but for my own peace, because holding on only hurts me more.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Wise people help you come up with a different way of looking at yourself, your past, and the world around you. Very often they focus your attention on your relationships, the in-between spaces that are so easy to overlook. How can this friendship or this marriage be nourished and improved? The wise person sees your gifts and potential, even the ones you do not see. Being seen in this way has a tendency to turn down the pressure, offering you some distance from your immediate situation, offering hope.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
I'm afraid I've given you the wrong impression, Sadie,' he said. 'I rather like to be consumed.
- Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
I could have forgiven you. Honestly, I would have, because I understand we all make mistakes. But what I will never forget is how you shoved all the blame onto me and declared yourself the innocent victim.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Some people listen with their ears. Some listen with their heart. The difference is everything.
- Sandra Sloat
We Never Spoke the Same Language
When you are not their priority, you will always get excuses. They will act busy, they will act confused, they will act tired, they will act indifferent they will act everything except being honest with you. And even after this treatment if you continue to be with them, then you are the one teaching them that your time, your love, your presence doesn’t need respect.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act out, control, and self-medicate are just equally desperate attempts to cover up the same deep spiritual pain. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single room in the twelve-step universe that I don’t relate to or qualify for, at some level or another, because my anxious mind never stops looking for ways to escape its host of human dilemmas.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Whatever trouble I get myself into, I promise you I can get myself out. I don't need you for that. I just need you to wait and hold me afterward.
- Abigail Owen
The Things Gods Break
One of the central characteristics of sex and love addicts is that we assign magical qualities to people, and then we become enraged when those people fail to live up to our fantasies, expectations, and projections.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
I know the voice of God the way a blind, mewling, newborn kitten knows the smell of its mother.

The voice said this: If you have arrived at a point in your life where you are seriously considering murdering yourself or another human being, there is a strong possibility that you have reached the end of your power.

I stopped walking.
I listened harder.
I leaned into the sound of God, offering me wisdom and guidance.

That being the case, continued the voice, perhaps it’s time you called somebody and asked for help.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Image management” is something addicts care a lot about, and I am no exception.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
What is the overgiver getting out of this obviously imbalanced arrangement?

Or at least, what do they think they’re getting?

Because nobody overgives for no reason—even if those reasons are deeply hidden or disguised as acts of pure altruism.

So what is the payoff, exactly?
In my case, the payoff has always been love—or at least, the desperate hope of love.

And how far am I willing to go—how much will I extend myself, exhaust myself, burn myself out, or manipulate, seduce, soothe, manage, and control others—in order to get my own hidden needs and hungers met?

Are you kidding me?
To earn love?
I will give up everything I have.
I will overgive myself right to the edge of annihilation.

But only always.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
This book is not only for people whose lives have been negatively impacted by their own addictions or by the addictions of others—although I do believe those two categories will include pretty much all of us, at some time or another. This book is also about the many ways that people—despite their best efforts at living sane and stable lives—can sometimes get swept into high-octane dramas and traumas, finding themselves washed up on shores that can feel very distant from their true natures.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
On the surface, I appeared to be a confident young go-getter. But my inner life was, as it had always been, a tremulous fear-scape. I was neither mature nor emotionally secure, and I wasn’t yet ready for the demands of adulthood. Hidden beneath all my apparent ingenuity was a terrified child constantly asking, “Who’s got me? Who will keep me safe? Where do I belong?” And thus I began my lifelong quest to make other people into my home.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
What are we but stories that touch?
- Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming
Patterns don’t repeat because we’re weak. They repeat because they once felt familiar enough to feel like home.
- Louise Fields
Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
Sometimes the lesson isn’t about why you chose the wrong person. It’s about why you stayed.
- Louise Fields
Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
Yes, I fail at missing you… but don’t mistake that for love, because that’s just out of habit. The truth is, I don’t even want to remember you anymore. Not your face, not your voice, not the version of me that tolerated you. You were a chapter that felt right, but it was a disaster. But now that I’ve grown, I’ve changed, I know the reality… I see you for who you are. So if forgetting you is slow, that’s fine. One day, even your memory will realise it is no longer welcome here.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I’m not here to be explained. I’m here to be heard.
- Nevine Essam
She Spoke — Finally
I want to be chosen every day — even when I’m not at my best.
- Nevine Essam
She Spoke — Finally
....I wasn't being mean or anything. I wasn't scaring her at that point. I was trying, you know, to see like a normal person.
- Israel Keyes
Love doesn’t really end with fights, it ends with silence. Fights still mean there’s care, there’s effort, there’s something to save. But silence means giving up. When two people stop talking, everything slowly fades, the connection, the warmth, the understanding. Not communicating with someone you love leaves a wound that never fully heals. You move on, but a part of you always remembers how silence replaced words, and how love turned into distance without saying a thing.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The people meant for you will feel like rest, not effort. What you carry quietly is often the map someone else needs to find their way.
- Ajmal, from "The Border of a Mind"
Boundaries are the lines we draw around our time, energy and emotions to protect our wellbeing. They are not walls built to shut others out, but fences with gates that can open and close. ... Many people struggle with boundaries because they equate them with selfishness or conflict. ... Yet saying yes when you mean no breeds resentment, which is far more toxic than an honest refusal
- Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner Wo
Now I don’t let betrayal close my heart. Yes, it hurts deeply when someone breaks your trust, but that doesn’t mean everyone will do the same. I have learned to be careful, but not cold, because people are different..some hurt and some heal. I take my time to recover, to surround myself with those who bring peace and happiness. I have learned to forgive, not for them, but for my own peace, because holding on only hurts me more.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Wise people help you come up with a different way of looking at yourself, your past, and the world around you. Very often they focus your attention on your relationships, the in-between spaces that are so easy to overlook. How can this friendship or this marriage be nourished and improved? The wise person sees your gifts and potential, even the ones you do not see. Being seen in this way has a tendency to turn down the pressure, offering you some distance from your immediate situation, offering hope.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
I'm afraid I've given you the wrong impression, Sadie,' he said. 'I rather like to be consumed.
- Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
I could have forgiven you. Honestly, I would have, because I understand we all make mistakes. But what I will never forget is how you shoved all the blame onto me and declared yourself the innocent victim.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Some people listen with their ears. Some listen with their heart. The difference is everything.
- Sandra Sloat
We Never Spoke the Same Language
When you are not their priority, you will always get excuses. They will act busy, they will act confused, they will act tired, they will act indifferent they will act everything except being honest with you. And even after this treatment if you continue to be with them, then you are the one teaching them that your time, your love, your presence doesn’t need respect.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act out, control, and self-medicate are just equally desperate attempts to cover up the same deep spiritual pain. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single room in the twelve-step universe that I don’t relate to or qualify for, at some level or another, because my anxious mind never stops looking for ways to escape its host of human dilemmas.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Whatever trouble I get myself into, I promise you I can get myself out. I don't need you for that. I just need you to wait and hold me afterward.
- Abigail Owen
The Things Gods Break
One of the central characteristics of sex and love addicts is that we assign magical qualities to people, and then we become enraged when those people fail to live up to our fantasies, expectations, and projections.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
I know the voice of God the way a blind, mewling, newborn kitten knows the smell of its mother.

The voice said this: If you have arrived at a point in your life where you are seriously considering murdering yourself or another human being, there is a strong possibility that you have reached the end of your power.

I stopped walking.
I listened harder.
I leaned into the sound of God, offering me wisdom and guidance.

That being the case, continued the voice, perhaps it’s time you called somebody and asked for help.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Image management” is something addicts care a lot about, and I am no exception.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
What is the overgiver getting out of this obviously imbalanced arrangement?

Or at least, what do they think they’re getting?

Because nobody overgives for no reason—even if those reasons are deeply hidden or disguised as acts of pure altruism.

So what is the payoff, exactly?
In my case, the payoff has always been love—or at least, the desperate hope of love.

And how far am I willing to go—how much will I extend myself, exhaust myself, burn myself out, or manipulate, seduce, soothe, manage, and control others—in order to get my own hidden needs and hungers met?

Are you kidding me?
To earn love?
I will give up everything I have.
I will overgive myself right to the edge of annihilation.

But only always.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
This book is not only for people whose lives have been negatively impacted by their own addictions or by the addictions of others—although I do believe those two categories will include pretty much all of us, at some time or another. This book is also about the many ways that people—despite their best efforts at living sane and stable lives—can sometimes get swept into high-octane dramas and traumas, finding themselves washed up on shores that can feel very distant from their true natures.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
On the surface, I appeared to be a confident young go-getter. But my inner life was, as it had always been, a tremulous fear-scape. I was neither mature nor emotionally secure, and I wasn’t yet ready for the demands of adulthood. Hidden beneath all my apparent ingenuity was a terrified child constantly asking, “Who’s got me? Who will keep me safe? Where do I belong?” And thus I began my lifelong quest to make other people into my home.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
What are we but stories that touch?
- Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming
Patterns don’t repeat because we’re weak. They repeat because they once felt familiar enough to feel like home.
- Louise Fields
Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
Sometimes the lesson isn’t about why you chose the wrong person. It’s about why you stayed.
- Louise Fields
Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
Yes, I fail at missing you… but don’t mistake that for love, because that’s just out of habit. The truth is, I don’t even want to remember you anymore. Not your face, not your voice, not the version of me that tolerated you. You were a chapter that felt right, but it was a disaster. But now that I’ve grown, I’ve changed, I know the reality… I see you for who you are. So if forgetting you is slow, that’s fine. One day, even your memory will realise it is no longer welcome here.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I’m not here to be explained. I’m here to be heard.
- Nevine Essam
She Spoke — Finally
I want to be chosen every day — even when I’m not at my best.
- Nevine Essam
She Spoke — Finally
....I wasn't being mean or anything. I wasn't scaring her at that point. I was trying, you know, to see like a normal person.
- Israel Keyes
Love doesn’t really end with fights, it ends with silence. Fights still mean there’s care, there’s effort, there’s something to save. But silence means giving up. When two people stop talking, everything slowly fades, the connection, the warmth, the understanding. Not communicating with someone you love leaves a wound that never fully heals. You move on, but a part of you always remembers how silence replaced words, and how love turned into distance without saying a thing.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The people meant for you will feel like rest, not effort. What you carry quietly is often the map someone else needs to find their way.
- Ajmal, from "The Border of a Mind"
Boundaries are the lines we draw around our time, energy and emotions to protect our wellbeing. They are not walls built to shut others out, but fences with gates that can open and close. ... Many people struggle with boundaries because they equate them with selfishness or conflict. ... Yet saying yes when you mean no breeds resentment, which is far more toxic than an honest refusal
- Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner Wo
Now I don’t let betrayal close my heart. Yes, it hurts deeply when someone breaks your trust, but that doesn’t mean everyone will do the same. I have learned to be careful, but not cold, because people are different..some hurt and some heal. I take my time to recover, to surround myself with those who bring peace and happiness. I have learned to forgive, not for them, but for my own peace, because holding on only hurts me more.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
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