There are a variety of relationships ranging from romantic to family and friends. To be successful in any type of relationship, there must be trust and openness present. Having respect for others is essential to keeping the lines of communication open. In life, relationships are a key ingredient to finding happiness and comfort. These greatest relationship quotes are just some examples to the way you can celebrate those around you today.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you would be loved, love, and be lovable.
– Benjamin Franklin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
– Henry Winkler
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
– Gloria Steinem
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.
– Mae West
I love her, and it is the beginning of everything.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is like the wind. You can’t see it, but you can feel it.
– Nicholas Sparks
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
– Andre Breton
No road is long with good company.
– Turkish Proverb
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.
– Sophocles
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
– Miles Franklin
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
– Martin Luther
To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.
– Mark Twain
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another.
– Owen Wilson
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
– Doménico Cieri Estrada
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
– Victor Hugo
Who, being loved, is poor?
– Oscar Wilde
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
– Dr. Seuss
We are most alive when we’re in love.
– John Updike
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
– Joyce Meyer
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
– Leo Buscaglia
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
– Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.
– Anonymous
Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.
– Ginni Rometty
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
– Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
– James Baldwin
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happily ever after is not a fairy tale – it’s a choice.
– Fawn Weaver
A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.
– Unknown
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
– Elbert Hubbard
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
– Yoko Ono
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
– Anais Nin
Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different.
– Sue Zhao
Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.
– Unknown
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
– Swedish Proverb
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
– Walter Winchell
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.
– Niti Majethia
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
– Albert Einstein
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
– Wayne Dyer
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
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
– Stephanie Perkins
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
– Ernest Hemingway
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
– Mark Twain
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
– Diane Arbus
We love the things we love for what they are.
– Robert Frost
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
– Maya Angelou
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
– William Arthur Ward
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
– Alain de Botton
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person.
– Kermit the Frog
Love is a game that two can play and both can win.
– Eva Gabor
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
– Mahatma Gandhi
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
– Joseph F. Newton Men
Nobody has ever measured – not even poets – how much love the human heart can hold.
– Zelda Fitzgerald
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
– Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there.
– Patti Callahan Henry
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 best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
– Audrey Hepburn
Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still.
– Catherine Pulsifer
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
– Thomas Merton
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
– Samuel Johnson
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
– B. R. Ambedkar
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
We cannot be sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
– Alan Watts
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
– George Eliot
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
– Morrie Schwartz
When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
– Catherine Gilbert Murdock
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
– Maya Angelou
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
– Bill Maher
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
– Henry James
Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone.
– Unknown
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
– Dale Carnegie
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
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
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
– Emily Kimbrough
True love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach
Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
– Margaret Mead
In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
– Robert Brault
Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
– Fraklin P. Jones
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
– Carl Jung
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
– Epicurus
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
– Max Muller
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
– Honore de Balzac
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
– Paul Boose
I Love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
– John Keats
A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
– Leo Buscaglia
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.
– John Tillotson
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
– Leo F. Buscaglia
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
– Karl Menninger
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
– Candace Bushnell
Relationships are worth fighting for, but you can’t be the only one fighting.
– Unknown
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Love alone can rekindle life.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
– George Eliot
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
– C.G. Jun
The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
– Neale Donald Walsch
True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
– Bryant H. McGill
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
– Catherine Ponder
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.
– Billy Crystal
I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.
– Dorothy L. Sayers
Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you.
– Unknown
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
– Winnie the Pooh
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
– George Burns
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
– Donald Miller
Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.
– N.R. Heart
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand
If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.
– Hugh Grant
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
– Albert Schweitzer
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust
Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone.
– Anonymous
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
– Aristotle
It’s probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he’s absolutely lethal.
– Charlaine Harris
What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whether it is a friendship or a relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing.
– Unknown