Relationship quotes

Relationship

1.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist

"When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter."

Voltaire
Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

"Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake."

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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Relationship

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?"

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
Relationship

"To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Relationship

"Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives."

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