QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
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
I want to see people deeply, one by one. You'd think this would be kind of easy. You open your eyes, direct your gaze, and see them. But most of us have all sorts of inborn proclivities that prevent us from perceiving others accurately.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Emotional Wealth – living in gratitude, kindness, and connection, especially with family and friends. It’s the kind of wealth not dictated by a bank balance, but by the peace you feel, the love you share, and the memories you create. Though money supports our lives, it’s our relationships and inner peace that enriches them.
- Nana Lyn Author
Dark Thoughts: Expanded Edition – Now with 30-Day Gentle Reset & Open Letter
Two people can wear rings, share vows, and still feel miles apart — because time doesn’t bond people. Truth and real love does.
Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny — Apsara L.L.
Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny — Apsara L.L.
- Apsara L.L.
What you love, you fight for. What you truly love, you protect without needing to win.
You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible.
You don’t miss them —
you miss the version of yourself that kept hoping.
Healing begins when you stop romanticizing almosts
and start choosing peace.
you miss the version of yourself that kept hoping.
Healing begins when you stop romanticizing almosts
and start choosing peace.
- Lina bloom
Be vigilant. There are real ciphers of life, love, joy, peace and good energy roaming. Some people call them the devils workmen. Others call them their exes, which to me is the same force. Keep your distance because their attempts to get close is to exchange breath.
- Niedria Dionne Kenny
The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny
Life doesn’t hurt you for being yourself. It hurts when you keep pretending to be someone you are not just to be loved, accepted, or understood. You lose pieces of yourself trying to fit into places you were never meant to belong. And one day, you realize the real pain was never rejection, it was forgetting who you were while trying to be enough for others.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Here’s the thing about withdrawal, from any drug, substance, person, or behavior: The reason it’s so excruciating is that not only do you have to feel the pain of losing access to that thing you desire more than anything else, but you also have to feel the pain of every other loss you have ever experienced along your life’s journey. All the previous failures, all the previous crashes, all the previous disappointments. It’s like a twenty-car pileup of failures on an icy highway, and there’s no way to get away from it. Worst of all, withdrawal forces you to feel your original suffering again—the deepest childhood grief or ancestral wound that started you out on this journey of addiction in the first place.
And who wants to feel that?
And who wants to feel that?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Trust people until they show you why you shouldn’t trust them. Don’t assume everyone will hurt you, but don’t ignore the signs when they do. Watch how they treat you when you have nothing to offer, that’s where truth hides. Protect your heart from pain, but don’t let fear stop you from feeling. A closed heart keeps you safe, but it also keeps you lonely. So trust but not blindly. Be cautious, but not closed.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Between Empathy and Compassion lies the toughest and the longest road you will ever take. Patience and calmness are two key resources which make the journey possible.
- Ramesh Sood
I can’t even tell you when my love addiction got triggered with Rayya, or when I collapsed into the utter abandonment of self that is codependency in its most deadly and life-destroying form. I can’t name the exact moment when I made her into my higher power, or when I surrendered all my will and agency to her, or when I decided that it was my job in life to serve her every desire—no matter how much it cost me, physically, emotionally, or financially.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Child, you keep demanding impossible promises from those who cannot even take care of themselves.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
How the hell did I get here? is a question that I believe everybody will have to face at some point during their passage through life. Perhaps even at multiple points. For who among us has never gotten lost, much to our own embarrassment? Who has not ended up in scenarios that are frightening, alienating, shameful, and spirit-crushing? Who has not kept secrets, or been betrayed, or tried to control the behavior of others? Who has not longed for escape from suffering? And who has not reached for substances, people, behaviors, or distractions that offer temporary respite from the built-in discomforts of existence itself?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
The line between a problematic behavior and an addiction is a murky one—perhaps even invisible. But a good test as to whether you’re an addict or not is to answer these three questions as honestly as possible: 1. Have you tried to stop this behavior and you can’t? 2. Have you managed to stop at times—but you can’t stay stopped? 3. Has your behavior brought consequences to your life that might cause a normal person to say, “Wow, I’ll certainly never do that thing again!”—yet you keep doing that thing?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
You move on, you smile, you start living again… people think you are over it, and maybe you are. But somewhere inside, in those quiet moments, you still wish they feel the same pain one day, the kind of pain they gave you, the one that didn’t even let you breathe properly.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Perhaps someday, she would find the confidence to reject Ahmed bin Walid outright and stop hoping for something that tore her heart in two. But - the thought of losing her connection with him was just as terrifying as putting name to it in the first place. She'd always told herself it was easier to walk away from someone when she buried her feelings for them; she couldn't lose anyone she didn't commit herself to.
- Chelsea Abdullah
The Stardust Thief
Everyone has pride, Friend, but the one who bends is the one who truly values the relationship..
- Anuradha Das
Sam and I talked that first day about our childhoods, about our first loves, about his family tree, which includes (it really does) both Malcolm X and Little Richard.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Thank you for breaking my heart. Thank you for breaking my trust. Thank you for making me feel unworthy of you. Yes, it hurts… but at least I don’t have to waste my time on someone so selfish anymore. At least now I know I’m not with someone who doesn’t treat me right.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Now I don’t feel bad when people don’t appreciate me or hurt me. Earlier it ised to hurt me, but now I know that my worth doesn’t depend on others. Now, I do things from love, not for attention. I have learned to stay kind, stay peaceful, and not expect anything back because my worth is mine, and it stays the same no matter who sees it or not.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
you were like water
you could hydrate
you could drown
but all you did was slip through my fingers
you could hydrate
you could drown
but all you did was slip through my fingers
- Akira BelléRose
Shooting Stars
There’s this belief that we’re supposed to love someone else, but we’re not. You’re supposed to love yourself and if someone comes along and you like the way they walk, talk and how your universes collide – then you go for it. If it doesn’t, you stop and take a step back and continue your journey.
People complicate life and have this perception that we require someone constantly. But when it comes down to it, all we need is ourself as no one else can be us.
People complicate life and have this perception that we require someone constantly. But when it comes down to it, all we need is ourself as no one else can be us.
- Dominic Riccitello
I want to see people deeply, one by one. You'd think this would be kind of easy. You open your eyes, direct your gaze, and see them. But most of us have all sorts of inborn proclivities that prevent us from perceiving others accurately.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Emotional Wealth – living in gratitude, kindness, and connection, especially with family and friends. It’s the kind of wealth not dictated by a bank balance, but by the peace you feel, the love you share, and the memories you create. Though money supports our lives, it’s our relationships and inner peace that enriches them.
- Nana Lyn Author
Dark Thoughts: Expanded Edition – Now with 30-Day Gentle Reset & Open Letter
Two people can wear rings, share vows, and still feel miles apart — because time doesn’t bond people. Truth and real love does.
Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny — Apsara L.L.
Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny — Apsara L.L.
- Apsara L.L.
What you love, you fight for. What you truly love, you protect without needing to win.
You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible.
You don’t miss them —
you miss the version of yourself that kept hoping.
Healing begins when you stop romanticizing almosts
and start choosing peace.
you miss the version of yourself that kept hoping.
Healing begins when you stop romanticizing almosts
and start choosing peace.
- Lina bloom
Be vigilant. There are real ciphers of life, love, joy, peace and good energy roaming. Some people call them the devils workmen. Others call them their exes, which to me is the same force. Keep your distance because their attempts to get close is to exchange breath.
- Niedria Dionne Kenny
The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny
Life doesn’t hurt you for being yourself. It hurts when you keep pretending to be someone you are not just to be loved, accepted, or understood. You lose pieces of yourself trying to fit into places you were never meant to belong. And one day, you realize the real pain was never rejection, it was forgetting who you were while trying to be enough for others.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Here’s the thing about withdrawal, from any drug, substance, person, or behavior: The reason it’s so excruciating is that not only do you have to feel the pain of losing access to that thing you desire more than anything else, but you also have to feel the pain of every other loss you have ever experienced along your life’s journey. All the previous failures, all the previous crashes, all the previous disappointments. It’s like a twenty-car pileup of failures on an icy highway, and there’s no way to get away from it. Worst of all, withdrawal forces you to feel your original suffering again—the deepest childhood grief or ancestral wound that started you out on this journey of addiction in the first place.
And who wants to feel that?
And who wants to feel that?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Trust people until they show you why you shouldn’t trust them. Don’t assume everyone will hurt you, but don’t ignore the signs when they do. Watch how they treat you when you have nothing to offer, that’s where truth hides. Protect your heart from pain, but don’t let fear stop you from feeling. A closed heart keeps you safe, but it also keeps you lonely. So trust but not blindly. Be cautious, but not closed.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Between Empathy and Compassion lies the toughest and the longest road you will ever take. Patience and calmness are two key resources which make the journey possible.
- Ramesh Sood
I can’t even tell you when my love addiction got triggered with Rayya, or when I collapsed into the utter abandonment of self that is codependency in its most deadly and life-destroying form. I can’t name the exact moment when I made her into my higher power, or when I surrendered all my will and agency to her, or when I decided that it was my job in life to serve her every desire—no matter how much it cost me, physically, emotionally, or financially.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Child, you keep demanding impossible promises from those who cannot even take care of themselves.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
How the hell did I get here? is a question that I believe everybody will have to face at some point during their passage through life. Perhaps even at multiple points. For who among us has never gotten lost, much to our own embarrassment? Who has not ended up in scenarios that are frightening, alienating, shameful, and spirit-crushing? Who has not kept secrets, or been betrayed, or tried to control the behavior of others? Who has not longed for escape from suffering? And who has not reached for substances, people, behaviors, or distractions that offer temporary respite from the built-in discomforts of existence itself?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
The line between a problematic behavior and an addiction is a murky one—perhaps even invisible. But a good test as to whether you’re an addict or not is to answer these three questions as honestly as possible: 1. Have you tried to stop this behavior and you can’t? 2. Have you managed to stop at times—but you can’t stay stopped? 3. Has your behavior brought consequences to your life that might cause a normal person to say, “Wow, I’ll certainly never do that thing again!”—yet you keep doing that thing?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
You move on, you smile, you start living again… people think you are over it, and maybe you are. But somewhere inside, in those quiet moments, you still wish they feel the same pain one day, the kind of pain they gave you, the one that didn’t even let you breathe properly.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Perhaps someday, she would find the confidence to reject Ahmed bin Walid outright and stop hoping for something that tore her heart in two. But - the thought of losing her connection with him was just as terrifying as putting name to it in the first place. She'd always told herself it was easier to walk away from someone when she buried her feelings for them; she couldn't lose anyone she didn't commit herself to.
- Chelsea Abdullah
The Stardust Thief
Everyone has pride, Friend, but the one who bends is the one who truly values the relationship..
- Anuradha Das
Sam and I talked that first day about our childhoods, about our first loves, about his family tree, which includes (it really does) both Malcolm X and Little Richard.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Thank you for breaking my heart. Thank you for breaking my trust. Thank you for making me feel unworthy of you. Yes, it hurts… but at least I don’t have to waste my time on someone so selfish anymore. At least now I know I’m not with someone who doesn’t treat me right.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Now I don’t feel bad when people don’t appreciate me or hurt me. Earlier it ised to hurt me, but now I know that my worth doesn’t depend on others. Now, I do things from love, not for attention. I have learned to stay kind, stay peaceful, and not expect anything back because my worth is mine, and it stays the same no matter who sees it or not.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
you were like water
you could hydrate
you could drown
but all you did was slip through my fingers
you could hydrate
you could drown
but all you did was slip through my fingers
- Akira BelléRose
Shooting Stars
There’s this belief that we’re supposed to love someone else, but we’re not. You’re supposed to love yourself and if someone comes along and you like the way they walk, talk and how your universes collide – then you go for it. If it doesn’t, you stop and take a step back and continue your journey.
People complicate life and have this perception that we require someone constantly. But when it comes down to it, all we need is ourself as no one else can be us.
People complicate life and have this perception that we require someone constantly. But when it comes down to it, all we need is ourself as no one else can be us.
- Dominic Riccitello
I want to see people deeply, one by one. You'd think this would be kind of easy. You open your eyes, direct your gaze, and see them. But most of us have all sorts of inborn proclivities that prevent us from perceiving others accurately.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Emotional Wealth – living in gratitude, kindness, and connection, especially with family and friends. It’s the kind of wealth not dictated by a bank balance, but by the peace you feel, the love you share, and the memories you create. Though money supports our lives, it’s our relationships and inner peace that enriches them.
- Nana Lyn Author
Dark Thoughts: Expanded Edition – Now with 30-Day Gentle Reset & Open Letter
Two people can wear rings, share vows, and still feel miles apart — because time doesn’t bond people. Truth and real love does.
Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny — Apsara L.L.
Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny — Apsara L.L.
- Apsara L.L.
What you love, you fight for. What you truly love, you protect without needing to win.
You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible.
You don’t miss them —
you miss the version of yourself that kept hoping.
Healing begins when you stop romanticizing almosts
and start choosing peace.
you miss the version of yourself that kept hoping.
Healing begins when you stop romanticizing almosts
and start choosing peace.
- Lina bloom
Be vigilant. There are real ciphers of life, love, joy, peace and good energy roaming. Some people call them the devils workmen. Others call them their exes, which to me is the same force. Keep your distance because their attempts to get close is to exchange breath.
- Niedria Dionne Kenny
The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny
Life doesn’t hurt you for being yourself. It hurts when you keep pretending to be someone you are not just to be loved, accepted, or understood. You lose pieces of yourself trying to fit into places you were never meant to belong. And one day, you realize the real pain was never rejection, it was forgetting who you were while trying to be enough for others.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Here’s the thing about withdrawal, from any drug, substance, person, or behavior: The reason it’s so excruciating is that not only do you have to feel the pain of losing access to that thing you desire more than anything else, but you also have to feel the pain of every other loss you have ever experienced along your life’s journey. All the previous failures, all the previous crashes, all the previous disappointments. It’s like a twenty-car pileup of failures on an icy highway, and there’s no way to get away from it. Worst of all, withdrawal forces you to feel your original suffering again—the deepest childhood grief or ancestral wound that started you out on this journey of addiction in the first place.
And who wants to feel that?
And who wants to feel that?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Trust people until they show you why you shouldn’t trust them. Don’t assume everyone will hurt you, but don’t ignore the signs when they do. Watch how they treat you when you have nothing to offer, that’s where truth hides. Protect your heart from pain, but don’t let fear stop you from feeling. A closed heart keeps you safe, but it also keeps you lonely. So trust but not blindly. Be cautious, but not closed.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Between Empathy and Compassion lies the toughest and the longest road you will ever take. Patience and calmness are two key resources which make the journey possible.
- Ramesh Sood
I can’t even tell you when my love addiction got triggered with Rayya, or when I collapsed into the utter abandonment of self that is codependency in its most deadly and life-destroying form. I can’t name the exact moment when I made her into my higher power, or when I surrendered all my will and agency to her, or when I decided that it was my job in life to serve her every desire—no matter how much it cost me, physically, emotionally, or financially.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Child, you keep demanding impossible promises from those who cannot even take care of themselves.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
How the hell did I get here? is a question that I believe everybody will have to face at some point during their passage through life. Perhaps even at multiple points. For who among us has never gotten lost, much to our own embarrassment? Who has not ended up in scenarios that are frightening, alienating, shameful, and spirit-crushing? Who has not kept secrets, or been betrayed, or tried to control the behavior of others? Who has not longed for escape from suffering? And who has not reached for substances, people, behaviors, or distractions that offer temporary respite from the built-in discomforts of existence itself?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
The line between a problematic behavior and an addiction is a murky one—perhaps even invisible. But a good test as to whether you’re an addict or not is to answer these three questions as honestly as possible: 1. Have you tried to stop this behavior and you can’t? 2. Have you managed to stop at times—but you can’t stay stopped? 3. Has your behavior brought consequences to your life that might cause a normal person to say, “Wow, I’ll certainly never do that thing again!”—yet you keep doing that thing?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
You move on, you smile, you start living again… people think you are over it, and maybe you are. But somewhere inside, in those quiet moments, you still wish they feel the same pain one day, the kind of pain they gave you, the one that didn’t even let you breathe properly.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Perhaps someday, she would find the confidence to reject Ahmed bin Walid outright and stop hoping for something that tore her heart in two. But - the thought of losing her connection with him was just as terrifying as putting name to it in the first place. She'd always told herself it was easier to walk away from someone when she buried her feelings for them; she couldn't lose anyone she didn't commit herself to.
- Chelsea Abdullah
The Stardust Thief
Everyone has pride, Friend, but the one who bends is the one who truly values the relationship..
- Anuradha Das
Sam and I talked that first day about our childhoods, about our first loves, about his family tree, which includes (it really does) both Malcolm X and Little Richard.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Thank you for breaking my heart. Thank you for breaking my trust. Thank you for making me feel unworthy of you. Yes, it hurts… but at least I don’t have to waste my time on someone so selfish anymore. At least now I know I’m not with someone who doesn’t treat me right.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Now I don’t feel bad when people don’t appreciate me or hurt me. Earlier it ised to hurt me, but now I know that my worth doesn’t depend on others. Now, I do things from love, not for attention. I have learned to stay kind, stay peaceful, and not expect anything back because my worth is mine, and it stays the same no matter who sees it or not.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.
- Thomas Lu
The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
you were like water
you could hydrate
you could drown
but all you did was slip through my fingers
you could hydrate
you could drown
but all you did was slip through my fingers
- Akira BelléRose
Shooting Stars
There’s this belief that we’re supposed to love someone else, but we’re not. You’re supposed to love yourself and if someone comes along and you like the way they walk, talk and how your universes collide – then you go for it. If it doesn’t, you stop and take a step back and continue your journey.
People complicate life and have this perception that we require someone constantly. But when it comes down to it, all we need is ourself as no one else can be us.
People complicate life and have this perception that we require someone constantly. But when it comes down to it, all we need is ourself as no one else can be us.
- Dominic Riccitello