'Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.'
I Corinthians 13:4-8

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

'Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.' ~Anais Nin

'We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal. Otherwise, life is unbearable.' ~Agate Nesaule

'Do NOT save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them now instead' ~Anna Cummins

'Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

'The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” ~Anthony Robbins

'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

'There is no joy except in human relationships” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages' ~Aristotle

'Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.' ~Arthur Rubinstein

'the best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you *can* say anything to the other person but you don't say *everything*.” ~Audrey Beth Stein

'Living with integrity means:
* Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
* Asking for what you want and need from others.
* Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
* Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
* Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.' ~Barbara De Angelis

'Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing' ~Benjamin Franklin

'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

'Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important' ~Carl Reiner

'Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.'~Dalai Lama

'We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.' ~Dalai Lama

'Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.” ~Deepak Chopra

'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

'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

'To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.' ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

'It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.” ~Eknath Easwaran

'The love we give away is the only love we keep.' ~Elbert Hubbard

'The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.' ~Elie Wiesel

'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

'I felt it shelter to speak to you.' ~Emily Dickinson

'Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.' ~Emily Kimbrough

'You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”~Epicurus

'When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.' ~Ernest Becker

'He is not a lover who does not love forever.' ~Euripides

'Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.' ~Flavia Weedn

'You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.' ~Frederick Buechner

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

'One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.' ~Gay Hendricks

'To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.' ~Goethe

'Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.' ~Hector Bianciotti

'Friends are born, not made. . .Intimates are pre-destined.' ~Henry Brooks Adams

'All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.' ~Henry Reed

'Assumptions are the termites of relationships.'~Henry Winkler

'Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter' ~James Fenimore Cooper

'Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action'.
~John 3:18

'There is in friendship something of all relations, and something above them all. It is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.' ~John Evelyn

'Forgiveness is the oil of relationships” ~Josh McDowell

'Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.' ~Leo Buscaglia

'Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”~Leo F. Buscaglia

'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

'Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.' ~Marcel Proust

'Are we not like two volumes of one book?' ~Marceline Desbordes

'Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.' ~Margaret Mead

'Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone' ~Margaret Wheatley

'For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'
~Matthew 6:21

'Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings' ~Miles Franklin

'We say we exchange words when we meet. What we exchange is souls.' ~Minot J. Savage

'Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people' ~Molleen Matsumura

'Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.' ~Murray Gell-Mann

'Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.' ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

'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

'Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.”~Peter Farquharson

'It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.” ~Quentin Crisp

'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

'There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.' ~Rollo May

'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth' ~Robert Southey

'Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions' ~Samuel Johnson

'Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.'~ Sir Walter Scott

'It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.” ~Soren Kierkegaard

'Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together”~Stephen R. Covey

'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

'Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.” ~Thomas Disch

'No road is long with good company.' ~Turkish Proverb

'You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.' ~Wayne W. Dyer

'Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.” ~Wayne Dyer

'As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.” ~Wayne Dyer

'Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.” ~Wayne Dyer

'Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.” ~William James

'We are advertis'd by our loving friends' ~William Shakespear

'People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.” ~Zig Ziglar