Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?" — Lewis Grizzard
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde
Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. — C. Rajagopalachari
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk. — Alan Rickman
I have a love-hate relationship with performing. — Sarah Brightman
You've got to be the best person you can be in your life. — Jeff Gordon
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
Starting Over Relationship Quotes
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. — Margaret Mitchell
You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.' — Ellen DeGeneres
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we're the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships. — Kevin Systrom
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz
There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person. — Matt Smith
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together. — Jess Walter
Relationship Trust Quotes
Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. — Mike Paul
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. — Stephen Covey
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 believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry
Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind — Waris Dirie
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. — Mark Manson
Love cannot live where there is no trust. — Edith Hamilton
You can't waste your life in insecure relationships. Either trust each other 100% or leave. — Steven Bartlett
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech. — Chris Brown
Relationship Goal Quotes
We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy. — Paul David Tripp
My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time. — Nina Dobrev
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. — Margaret Spellings
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. — Trent Reznor
Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ. — Kay Arthur
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life. — Mata Amritanandamayi
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. — Rabindranath Tagore
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do. — Sandy Koufax
My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet. — Don Omar
How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone. — Les Brown
Real Relationship Quotes
Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?" — Anthony Griffin
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. — Jane Austen
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. — Margaret J. Wheatley
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. — Aristotle
Don't inflict pains from your past on your present relationships.
You’ll never please everyone. Find those who like the real you and invite them closer. All others don’t matter to you. — Mo Gawdat
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. — Wayne Dyer
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship. — Keri Russell
Relationship Communication Quotes
Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs. — Billy Graham
Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. — Dr. Dre
If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others. — Dalai Lama
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault.
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. — Hermann Hesse
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. — Tony Robbins
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
I speak with my father about everything in my life. — Jared Kushner
Don’t allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship. — American Proverbs
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. — Peter Block
You cannot ask anyone for things you don’t already give them. — Alex Hormozi
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. —
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
Love Relationship Quotes
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
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
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
Strong Relationship Quotes
Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die. — Wiz Khalifa
EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world. — Claudio Reyna
The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities. — Mark Parker
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman
Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. — Nicholas Sparks
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships. — Lara Pulver
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way. — Rob McKenna
Good Relationship Quotes
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not. — Henry Cloud
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
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
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
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
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake
Just be yourself, there is no one better. — Taylor Swift
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. — Laura Schlessinger
Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure. — Audrey Hepburn
If you're lucky enough to be different, never change. — Taylor Swift
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied. — James Allen
Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship. — Wilmer Valderrama
No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her. — Marilyn Monroe
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger — Sara Evans
Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict. — Julius Nyerere
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl Rogers
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