Relationships Quotes

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."

- Sophia Bush

"A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Cheese, wine, and friends must be old to be good."

- Cuban proverb

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Find people who will make you better"

- Michelle Obama

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

- Seneca

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

- Diogenes

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you."

- Epictetus

"Husband and wife should come together to craft a shared life, procreating children, seeing all things as shared between them-with nothing withheld or private to one another-not even their bodies."

- Gaius Musonius Rufus

"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."

- Thomas Jefferson

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice."

- Brené Brown

"Take accountability… Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown."

- Steve Maraboli

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

- Katharine Hepburn

"I married beneath me. All women do."

- Nancy Astor

"Play is foundational for bonding relationships and fostering tolerance. It’s where we learn to trust and where we learn about the rules of the game. Play increases creativity and resilience, and it’s all about the generation of diversity—diversity of interactions, diversity of behaviors, diversity of connections."

- Isabel Behncke

"Playing a game together actually builds up bonds and trust and cooperation. We actually build stronger social relationships as a result."

- Jane McGonigal

"Here’s to the nights we’ll never forget and the friends we’ll always remember."

"A friendship that can cease has never been real."

"A lost friendship is an enemy won."

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

"A man will only treat you how you let him."

"You’re luck if you get one good friend in life."

""Saturdays are the perfect time to create beautiful memories with loved ones.""

"To my sister, my friend forever. Happy 40th birthday!"

"Sisters make the best friends in the world. Happy 40th birthday to mine!"

"Fun times or tough times, I’m glad we’ve gone through it all together. Happy 40th birthday!"

"There is no better friend than a sister. Happy 40th birthday to my best friend!"

"We’ve shared so many laughs over the years. I love making memories with you. Happy 40th sis!"

"You’re not just my sister, you’re my best friend. Happy 40th birthday!"