1. and leave footprints on our hearts
2. and we are never ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever
3. Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers
4. Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
5. Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler
6. Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ
7. Death ends a life, not a relationship. ~Robert Benchley
8. Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia
9. 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. ~Anais Nin
10. Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ~Mike Murdock
11. Even the best of friends face conflicts, but that needn't mean the end of the relationship. ~Unknown
12. Every person, and all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ~Richard Bach
13. Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown
14. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~Buddha
15. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie
16. I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
17. I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Tas Soft Wind
18. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine
19. In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World
20. 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
21. It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. ~Anthony Storr
22. It's the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it's the little differences that make them interesting. ~Todd Ruthman
23. I've learned in my lifetime so far that you can't help who you fall for and no matter how hard you try and how much it hurts you everyday that you just wanna be with them or just talk to them you never stop trying to make them happy by the little things you say or do because thats what makes your life worth going on for. ~Unknown
24. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
25. 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
26. Love lasts when the relationship comes first. ~Unknown
27. Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
28. Many people come to praise the cherry trees in bloom --- But they are truly kind who visit them after the blossoms are fallen. ~Japanese Poem
29. No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
30. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
31. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
32. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~Joseph F. Newton
33. Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous
34. Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. ~Unknown
35. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
36. Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. ~Anthony Robbins
37. Some people come into our lives
38. Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin
39. Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
40. Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart. ~Suzanne Nichols
41. Success in relationships is not so much about finding the right person as it is being the right person. ~Unknown
42. The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. ~Unknown
43. The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship. ~Deborah Tannen
44. The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. ~Emil Ludwig
45. The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity. ~Brian Tracy
46. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. ~Unknown
47. 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
48. Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
49. Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore
50. True friends are those who, When you make a fool of yourself, Don't believe that this condition is permanent. ~Erwin T. Randall
51. We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~Unknown
52. Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. ~Anthony Robbins
53. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer