- “Because after all the poemsI’ve written for him and othersthis is the first poems ever written for me.I’ll never be as good of a poet as you, Poet X, and I believe you’re strong enoughto defend yourself and me at the same time,but I’ll always have your back,and I’ll always protect your heart.” ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
- “Use this time in quarantine to reinvigorate your relationships. How you might ask? It starts with forgiveness, rounded out by patience, and crystalized by love.” ― Charles F Glassman
- “If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer
- “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
- “Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.” ― Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex
- “You fall for a person, not a type.” ― Melanie A. Smith, Bad Boys Don’t Make Good Boyfriends
- “Most people are trying to change the outcomes in their lives, rather than changing themselves as a person. They want to have meaningful, loving and trustworthy relationships, generate more capital, get physically fit or set up a business, without truly putting in the effort to rewire their brains and change their subconscious programming. This is putting the cart before the horse.” ― Christopher Dines, Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
- “Relationships are knitted together by need. When two people connect, the purpose each is serving in the other’s life is what holds the union in place, keeps the ragged edges of its hemline sewn.” ― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am: A Memoir
- “The wish of my heart is written on my eyes, how do I say that in words.” ― Santosh Kumar (San)
- “When we catch someone lying, it becomes a pandemic like situation. Our mind starts sanitising every word and action coming from them.” ― Shunya
- “Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “A man must harness his emotions and not just be running for approval from one person to the next or running for love from one woman to the next. A man who sorts himself out, harnesses truth, and develops his character becomes the man who may fall hard for a good woman but notthe man who chases love.” ― Ryan Landry, Masculinity Amidst Madness
- “A lot of pain that we are dealing with are really only THOUGHTS.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “Betrayals shatters illusions… It breaks your heart, but clears your vision.” ― Steve Maraboli
- “The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.” ― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
- “The purpose of a relationship is to reflect to all the others in the relationship what they need to understand to become more of themselves.Everyone in a relationship is in a relationship for the purpose of helping the other people in the relationship, giving them opportunities to learn to be who they are more and more.” ― Bashar
- “I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don’t show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I’d always known.” ― Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love
- “When I was done, she said earnestly, “Everyone causes trouble for someone at some point in their lives.” ― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo
- “Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “He told me that from now on, everything I did and everything he did was of the utmost importance: any word spoken, the slightest gesture, would take on a meaning, and everything that happened between us would change us continually. ‘For that reason,’he said,’I wish I were able to suspend time at this moment and keep things exactly at this point, because I feel this instant is a true beginning. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it’s all gone. That’s why I wish I could hold it back at the start. We should make a minimum of gestures, pronounce a minimum of words, even see each other as seldom as possible, if that would prolong things. We don’t know how much of everything we have ahead of us so we have to take the greatest precautions not to destroy the beauty of what we have. Everything exists in limited quantity-especially happiness. If a love is to come into being, it is all written down somewhere, and also its duration and content. If you could arrive at the complete intensity the first day, it would be ended the first day. And so if it’s something you want so much that you’d like to have it prolonged in time, you must be extremely careful not to make the slightest excessive demand that might prevent it from developing to the greatest extent over the longest period…If the wings of the butterfly are to keep their sheen, you mustn’t touch them. We mustn’t abuse something which is to bring light into both our lives. Everything else in my life only weighs me down and shuts out the light. This thing wih you seems like a window that is opening up. I want it to remain open…” ― Francoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
- “How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?” ― Sreesha Divakaran, A Little Chorus of Love
- “It had survive both separation and divulging interests.” ― Georgette Heyer, A Civil Contract
- “The ability to recognize and respect individual differences is the beginning of successful relationship.” ― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- “’Better to have loved and lost,’ my ass.Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.” ― Nenia Campbell, Touched with Sight
- “I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, ‘C’est tres, tres tragique.’” ― Louise Rennison, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
- “You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you” ― Darien Gee, Friendship Bread
- “I will never deny that life isn’t fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “To lovers out there ….In a relationship. You can’t be giving only sex or money and think your special and irreplaceable. A relationship is like building a house. You need different type of materials. Materials for foundation, walls and roofing. Materials to make the house strong and materials to make it look beautiful. If your house is built proper. You know it is safe to stay in it, for as long as you want. Same as a relationship. If you build a good relationship with your partner. It will be safe, and you will be happy to stay in it for as long as you want. Some of the materials that build a good relationship is love, trust, respect, honesty, responsibility, support , commitment , sex, money, caring , listening, communication, give in as much as you take and have time for your partner.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “i’m not scaredof the monstershidden underneathmy bed.i’m much more scaredof the boyswith messy brown hair,sleepy eyes,& mouthsthat only knowhow to formhalf-truths.” ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
- “And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us–excuse me for saying this–but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.” ― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love