...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving. — Joan Bauer
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. — Gustave Flaubert
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. — Adrienne Rich
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. — Wynonna Judd
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. — Greta Scacchi
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all. — Tori Spelling
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. — Harriet Lerner
Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . . — Thomas Keating
In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it. — Jennifer Morrison
It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. — Axl Rose
Love is sometimes difficult but death even more so. — Albanian Proverbs
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress — Nora Roberts
One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility. — Daniel Goleman
Short Difficult Relationship Quotes
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different — Spencer W. Kimball
The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good. — Miles J. Stanford
Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. — Jennifer O'Neill
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. — Wayne Dyer
That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship. — Murray Bowen
Difficult Relationship Image Quotes
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Inspirational Relationship Quotes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. — Charlie Chaplin
Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara — Charlotte Tilbury
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone — Margaret J. Wheatley
Complicated Relationship Quotes
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. — J. August Strindberg
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. — Bill Russell
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them. — Caroline Myss
I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you. — Graeme Simsion
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you. — Rick Riordan
If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? — Margaret Atwood
Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back. — Drake
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him. — Kate Beckinsale
Troubled Relationship Quotes
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last? — Jacque Fresco
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. — Gil Kane
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. — Gillian Anderson
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. — Michele Weiner-Davis
Things didn't work between the two of them, because they loved the same person. He loved her and she loved herself — Ravinder Singh
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent. — Nouman Ali Khan
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. — Charlotte Bronte
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. — Thomas Moore
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. — Gillian Anderson
Relationship Struggle Quotes
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. — A. Philip Randolph
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. — Deepak Chopra
When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down. — Joshua Harris
Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself. — Gary Zukav
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization. — Dan B. Allender
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power. — Osho
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. — Malcolm Fraser
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources. — Richard Lewontin
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex. — Mark Kurlansky
Bad Relationship Quotes
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend. — Cara Delevingne
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. — Harville Hendrix
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton
A bad wife spells a hundred years of bad harvest. — Japanese Proverbs
Relationship Issue Quotes
I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him. — Dana White
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. — Lloyd Alexander
We will keep facing the same test until we learn the lesson we are meant to learn. The same situations, relationships, issues will keep arising in our lives until we recognize what we are supposed to take away. — Jay Shetty
Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship. — Harriet Lerner
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship. — Henry Cloud
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. — Milton Glaser
Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other. — Melody Beattie
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate. — Hillary Clinton
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women. — Deborah Tannen
All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with. — Shakti Gawain
Distant Relationship Quotes
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music. — Mac Miller
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield
Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. — Nancy Friday
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. — Ezra Cornell
I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror. — Harrison Ford
Family Relationship Quotes
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation. — Queen Elizabeth II
... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong. — Alex Morgan
Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions. — Steve de Shazer
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. — Frederick Buechner
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. — Wallace Stegner
For the poor, for those who want to serve, the only place left for such people is BJP. When someone joins the BJP family, it is not only about membership, we strengthen relationships. — Narendra Modi
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
Look at the mother before marrying the daughter. — Turkish Proverbs
Dysfunctional Relationship Quotes
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness. — Kristin Chenoweth
There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us. — Richard Bentall
Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship. — John Bush
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood. — Peter Thiel
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality. — Gary Chapman
Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again. — Martha Beck
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think. — Peter R. Orszag
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening. — Sophie Hannah
Sad Relationship Quotes
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones. — Steve Martin
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. — Joyce Brothers
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress — Brian Weiss
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may. — D. H. Lawrence
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship. — Brandon Sanderson
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them. — Sue Johnson
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us. — Joel Osteen
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment. — David Whyte
But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness. — Osho
Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally. — Gloria Gaither
An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end. — Desmond Tutu
It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time. — Cornel West
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. — Regina Brett
Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection. — Shawn Achor
Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality. — Jimmy Carter
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support. — Anthony Storr
Young men are eager to "hook up" with women. And many say they have very good female friends. But some of the emotions circulating among guys make it difficult to form and sustain healthy relationships. — Michael Kimmel
Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. — Fay Weldon
A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. — Brian Weiss
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism. — Nancy Reagan
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. — Dido Armstrong
All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it. — Woody Allen
There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end. — Rita Zahara
To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system. — Robert Kraft
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture. — Shin Kyung-sook
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like. — Stephen Fry
Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship. — Lee Radziwill
There are a lot of bigger issues we have to be worrying about with respect to our relationship to China, and the longer they drag out the situation, the more difficult it is to get this relationship back on track. — Colin Powell
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. — Margaret Mead
It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover! — Paulo Coelho
nothing in this world was more difficult than love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there. — Charles Bukowski
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. — Andy Goldsworthy
I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship. — Andrew Solomon
I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships. — Javier Bardem
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