Quotes - relationships

RELATIONSHIPS

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the person who likes you doesn’t need it, and the person who dislikes you won’t believe it.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

-“Annie”

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, “A Life for a Life”

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

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph F. Newton

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

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.

-Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects”

True friends are those who, when you make a food of yourself, don’t believe that this condition is permanent.

-Erwin T. Randall

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu