Quotes on “relationships”

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

What is it about men that make women so lonely?

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.