Quotes about Relationships

It's true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I've come to believe there's something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.

I realized that for years I'd thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. And it had cost me most of the girls I'd dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren't. It's too much pressure to put on a person.

What attracts us doesn't always connect us. I can't tell you how many friends I have who have been taken in by somebody sexy or powerful or charming but soon after find themselves feeling alone in the relationship. It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.

90 percent of people's problems could be prevented if they'd choose healthier people to give their hearts to.

What goes on in the other person's soul is none of your business. All you're responsible for is your soul, nobody else's.

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.

If our identity gets broken, it affects our ability to connect. And I wonder if we're not all a lot better for each other than we previously thought. I know we're not perfect, but I wonder how many people are withholding the love they could provide because they secretly believe they have fatal flaws.

Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

The last thing I learned about relationships by swimming in the pond was there are more lifeguards than sharks. What I mean is, for the most part, other people aren't out to get us.

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.