Top 200 Relationship Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin

52. “In love the other is important; in lust you are important.”

— Osho

53. “Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.”

— Brené Brown

54. “Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side. ”

— Zig Ziglar

55. “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

56. “To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.”

— Rhonda Byrne

57. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anaïs Nin

58. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran

59. “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”

— Kiersten White

60. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

— Jane Austen

61. “One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”

— Jim Rohn

62. “Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.”

— Nhat Hanh

63. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”

— Erich Fromm

64. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

— Elie Wiesel

65. “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

66. “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 R. Covey

67. “In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

— Nicholas Sparks

68. “I’ll be there forever and a day – Always I’ll be there till the stars don’t shine Till the heavens burst and The words don’t rhyme And I know when I die, you’ll be on my mind And I’ll love you – Always.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

69. “Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.”

— Virginia Satir

70. “Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

71. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

— Anthony Burgess

72. “I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.”

— Lauren Kate

73. “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

— Bruce Barton

74. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

— Nora Ephron

75. “Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”

— Ally Condie

76. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

— William James

77. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

— Tom Bodett

78. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

79. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

— John Lennon

80. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

— Maya Angelou

81. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

— Henry David Thoreau

82. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

— Stephen R. Covey

83. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson

84. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

85. “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

— Oscar Wilde

86. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

— Mark Twain

87. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

— Ayn Rand

88. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

— Jim Rohn

89. “If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare

90. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho

91. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

92. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. “Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

94. “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

— Leo Buscaglia

95. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

96. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

97. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

— C. S. Lewis

98. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali

99. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

— Albert Schweitzer

100. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller