100 Inspirational Quotes for Relationships: Wisdom to Strengthen Your Bond

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

- George Sand

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

- Thomas Fuller

"Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."

- Gilbert Parker

"If you have to walk a million miles, I'll wait a million days to see you smile. Distance and time, I'll be waiting."

- Alicia Keys

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."

- Truman Capote

"I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms."

- J.M. Barrie

"In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."

- Hans Nouwens

"A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart."

- Leo Buscaglia

"A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not what we’re pretending to be."

- Richard Bach

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude…Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

"Home will be where the heart is. Never were words so true. My heart's far, far away. Home is too."

- Lisa Kessler

"Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"The first duty of love is to listen."

- Paul Tillich

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

- Gabriel Garcia Márquez

"Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough."

- Meghan Daum

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

- Doug Fetherling

"You know you've found true love when you catch yourself falling in love with the same person over and over again, despite them being miles away from you."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."

- Julia Roberts

"If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart."

- Nicholas Sparks

"I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."

- A.A. Milne

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- JRR Tolkien

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more."

- Bob Marley

""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

""The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.""

- Victor Hugo

""You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.""

- _Love & Other Drugs_

""Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.""

- Amy Grant

"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are"

- Donald Miller

""You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.""

- Dr. Seuss

""Trust is the glue of life. It is the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.""

- Stephen R. Covey

""We loved with a love that was more than love.""

- Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"

""People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'You're safe with me,' that's intimacy.""

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, _The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo_

""A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would.""

- _Dawson's Creek_

"Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

""Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get; only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.""

- Katharine Hepburn, _Me: Stories of My Life_

""A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.""

- Mignon McLaughlin

""I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that.""

- Charles Bukowski

""The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.""

- Charles Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_

""When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.""

- Haruki Murakami, _Norwegian Wood_

""We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.""

- Sam Keen, _To Love and Be Loved_

""Where there is love there is life.""

- Mahatma Gandhi

""The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard. They must be felt with the heart.""

- Helen Keller

""Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.""

- Maya Angelou

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses"

- Ann Landers

"Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own"

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

- Jodi Picoult, "My Sister's Keeper"

"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."

- Cassandra Clare

""The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.""

- Audrey Hepburn

"A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart."

- Leo F. Buscaglia

""We were together even when we were apart.""

- Shannon A. Thompson, _Death Before Daylight_

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."

- Rabindranath Tagore

""That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.""

- Kaui Hart Hemmings, _The Descendants_

""I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.""

- A.A. Milne, _Winnie-the-Pooh_

""There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.""

- George Sand

""Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.""

- Orhan Pamuk, _Snow_

"We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence."

- Cornel West

"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."

- Hugh Mackay

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

- Lord Byron

"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends."

- B. R. Ambedkar

"You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens."

- Kirsten Dunst

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

- Eva Gabor

"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice."

- Fawn Weaver

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Khalil Gibran

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

"Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved."

- William Paul Young

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

- Honore de Balzac

""You're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.""

- _You've Got Mail_

""Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.""

- Zora Neale Hurston

""Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.""

- Frida Kahlo

""A relationship where you can be weird together is your best choice.""

- Paulo Coelho

""Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.""

- Oscar Wilde

""Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.""

- William Paul Young

""We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.""

- Cornel West, _Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life_

""We're better together and stronger together.""

- Courtney B. Vance

""Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.""

- Walter Winchell

""Familiar acts are beautiful through love.""

- Percy Shelley, _Prometheus Unbound_

""You can't blame gravity for falling in love.""

- Albert Einstein

""You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.""

- E.E. Cummings, "#38"

""You have bewitched me, body and soul.""

- Jane Austen, _Pride and Prejudice_

""If I know what love is, it is because of you.""

- Hermann Hesse, _Narcissus and Goldmund_

""I look at you, and I'm home.""

- _Finding Nemo_

""I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I'd never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him.""

- Blake Lively

""The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.""

- Diane Von Furstenberg, _Diane: A Signature Life_

""Meeting John really changed my life. When I feel the support that I have from him, I feel invincible. There's someone behind you on your good days, and someone in front of you on your bad days.""

- Emily Blunt

""When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that.""

- John Krasinski

""When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.""

- Taylor Swift, _Billboard_

""I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.""

- Freddie Prinze Jr.

"If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love."

- Bernard Byer

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

- James Baldwin

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

- Bryant H. McGill

"Anyone can love a thing 'because'. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect."

- Patrick Rothfuss

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

- Princess Diana

"For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

- Stephanie Perkins

"True love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

"Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it."

- Marian Keyes

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"I still haven't figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do."

- William C. Hannan

"Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime."

- Mario Puzo

"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

"Anyone can give you attention and compliments… but someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty."

- Charles Orlando

"I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades."

- Sylvester Stallone

"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

- Victor Hugo

"Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success."

- Taylor Lautner

"Trust in me in all you do. Have the faith I have in you."

- Etta James

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever."

- C. JoyBell C.

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

- George MacDonald

"Trust is the first step to love."

- Munshi Premchand

"Loyalty is what makes us trust, trust is what makes us stay, staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope."

- Gleen Van Dekken

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them."

- Steve Hall

"The fundamental glue that keeps a relationship together is trust."

- Brian Tracy

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

- Steve Maraboli

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."

- Nicholas Sparks

""Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.""

- Zelda Fitzgerald

""Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it.""

- Toni Morrison, _Jazz_

""For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.""

- Carl Sagan, _Cosmos_

""You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.""

- Boris Pasternak, _Doctor Zhivago_

""It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.""

- Michelle Yeoh

""Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person.""

- Kermit the Frog

""Wherever she is, that's where my home is.""

- Nicholas Sparks, _The Notebook_

""There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.""

- Charlotte Brontë, _Jane Eyre_

""Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.""

- Swedish Proverb

""It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.""

- Stephen Chbosky, _The Perks of Being a Wallflower_

""They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.""

- Tom Bodett

""Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.""

- Nicole Krauss, _The History of Love_

""I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.""

- _Atonement_

""It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.""

- Gabriel Garcia Márquez, _One Hundred Years of Solitude_

""It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.""

- Haruki Murakami, _Norwegian Wood_

""But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.""

- Lemony Snicket, _The Beatrice Letters_

""Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But you want someone who'll help you catch the bus.""

- Oprah Winfrey

""Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.""

- Ram Gehlot

"You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts."

- Rupi Kaur

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."

- Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

- Victor Hugo

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

- Sinclair Lewis

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

- C.G. Jung

"Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous."

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."

- Anthony Storr

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

- Sam Keen

"Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’"

- Erich Fromm

"A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who won't give up on each other."

- Kate Stewart

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

- Pearl S. Buck

"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

- Martin Luther

"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."

- When Harry Met Sally

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."

- Lauryn Hill

"A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor."

- Jerry and Eileen Spinelli

"For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once."

- John Green

"You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

"It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be."

- Michelle Yeoh

"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

- Bruce Lee

"Romantic love is a mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life."

- Richard Bach

"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage."

- Martin Luther

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."

- John Galsworthy

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

- Andre Marois

"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."

- Criss Jami

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."

- Angelita Lim

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

- Franz Schubert

"Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited."

- Gloria Steinem

"The highest happiness on earth is marriage."

- William Lyon Phelps

"Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long."

- Amy Grant

"Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you."

- Walter Winchell

"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat."

- Joanne Woodward

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every couple needs to argue now and then, just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story."

- Jennifer Smith

"It’s been a year and three months since we’ve kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else."

- Alishah Khan

"My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are — you will always have a place to stay."

- K.A. Hill

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

- Honore de Balzac

"My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul."

- Boris Kodjoe

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

"It was as though each of them had discovered something unexpected but infinitely desirable. They were not yet sure of each other, but they wanted to be."

- Cassandra Clare

"You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you."

- Bob Marley

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."

- Jane Austen

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"Without warning, as a whirlwind swoops on an oak, love shakes my heart."

- Sappho

"It might have been a new way for her heart to beat."

- Philip Pullman

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

- John Lennon

"If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

- John Steinbeck

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."

- Andre Breton

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"The best part about getting to know you is anticipating that each day brings new surprises that are all about you."

- Robin Raven

"New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it."

- Eli Easton

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."

- Sarah Dessen

"The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

- Jane Austen

"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

"My heart is, and always will be, yours."

- Jane Austen

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"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

"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

- Madame de Stael

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

- James Baldwin

"Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

- Donna Roberts

"There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love."

- Shmuley Boteach

"The best proof of love is trust."

- Joyce Brothers

"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society."

- Maya Angelou

"A successful relationship requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story."

- Faraaz Kazi

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred Tennyson

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

- Katharine Lee Bates

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"If you found that one person who is really worth the sacrifices, pain, and hardships, then your efforts will not go to waste."

- Anna Agoncillo

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

- János Arany

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

- James Russell Lowell

"Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person."

- Kermit the Frog

"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you."

- Juno

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

- Nicole Krauss

"A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple."

- Tzipi Livni

"When you fall in love, the natural thing is to give yourself to it. That’s what I think. It’s just a form of sincerity."

- Haruki Murakami

"Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person."

- Sophia Bush

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

- Swedish Proverb

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Distance means so little when someone means so much."

- Tom McNeal

"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It's a choice."

- Fawn Weaver

"When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is."

- Gisele Bundchen

"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."

- Phillips Brooks

"Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits."

- Dee King

""But the thing is this, after a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.""

- _Sex and the City_

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."

- Sara Teasdale

"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."

- Mineko Iwasaki

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- Audrey Hepburn

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

- Joseph F. Newton Men

"Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it."

- Ginni Rometty

"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."

- Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

""Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.""

- Marcel Proust

"As I’m getting older, I’m really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important."

- Bindi Irwin

"When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain."

- Andrea Gibson

""What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?""

- George Eliot, _Middlemarch_

""If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president, being married to Michelle Obama is number one.""

- Barack Obama

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

- Henry Winkler

""True love is singing karaoke 'Under Pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.""

- Mindy Kaling

"Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different."

- Sue Zhao

"In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."

- Robert Brault

"One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones"

- Turcois Ominek

"Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities."

- Patti Roberts

""Love is being stupid together.""

- Paul Valéry

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

- Ronald Reagan

"We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics."

- Joyce Meyer

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty."

- Cicero

"The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep."

- Margaret George

"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"You can’t lose something you never had."

- Kate Hudson

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

- Paul Boese

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Souls tend to go back to who feels like home."

- N.R. Hart

"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale, it’s a choice."

- Fawn Weaver

"Love is a two-way street constantly under construction."

- Carroll Bryant

"You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you."

- Mark Boyer

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

- Albert Ellis

"Ocean separates lands, not souls."

- Munia Khan

"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up."

- Ogden Nash

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash."

- Joyce Brothers

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps."

- Joe Murray

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

- Christopher Marlowe

"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."

- Samuel Daniel

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"A good husband makes a good wife."

- John Florio

"Romantic love is painful."

- will.i.am

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go."

- Roy T. Bennett

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Pain will leave you, when you let go."

- Jeremy Aldana

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers."

- Niti Majethia

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain"

- Alan Watts

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle."

- Tim Hiller

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Focus on your journey, not the destination."

- Greg Anderson

"Don’t compare yourself to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about."

- Regina Brett

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Focus on what others have and you feel that you have so little. Focus on what you do have and you realize that you have so much."

- Hrishikesh Agnihotri

"Have more than you show, and speak less than you know."

- William Shakespeare

"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

- Elon Musk

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."

- Groucho Marx

"The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it."

"The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts you at your worst."

"I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you."

"Choose your relationships wisely. It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company."

"Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely."

"If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it."

"True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes."

"Don’t try to be everything to everyone. Be everything to someone."

"Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time."

"We were born in a time when if something was broken, we would fix it, not throw it away."

"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know."

"Love is the poetry of the senses."

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."

"Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect."

"You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you."

"I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes."

"Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it."