Relationships Advice Quotes

Allow your relationship to progress at its own pace. Enjoy each moment of each date, the courtship, the friendship, and the natural progression to commitment. If it is meant to be, it will happen. ~ Pamela Cummins

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more. ~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

Your external world mirrors your internal state. Heal the parts of you that need your attention or you will forever live out your pain for all to see. ~ Dana Hall LCPC, MA, TF-CBT

When you stop giving attention to someone that takes you for granted, they will notice...trust! ~ April Mae Monterrosa

I made all the people who love me follow my gravity, but I gave them the opportunity to decide the distance between me and them ~ Wael Yousry

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built - the oil, chemistry, and the craft - you miss all the beauty. ~ Piper Payne

Often we find ourselves in a trap of commitment wondering if your partner can be faithful to you completely. Most people will not commit to this kind of relationship. But if you have found your Soul mate, this will not be a challenge for you. It all depends on the actions of yourself and your partner. ~ Kevin Dellinger

When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed. ~ Frank Natale

Love isn't about finding the perfect person. A perfect person does not exist. Love is about accepting someone for who they are completely, good and bad. It's about seeing their flaws and understanding that it makes them who they are. Love isn't always going to be easy, in fact it really shouldn't be. If love is easy, it isn't love. ~ Crystal A. Cordero

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. ~ Rossana Condoleo

Love people for who they are and not for who you want them to be. That's where the disconnection starts. ~ Karen Salmansohn

A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving. ~ Kemi Sogunle

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to always be miserable, because that is actually your job ~ Linda Alfiori

There is nothing more secure in a relationship than a sense of insecurity. ~ Amit Abraham

For every bridge you burn
there is the burdensome task
of building another one. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end. ~ Sarah Swainson

Your relationship should erase your tears, not your smile. ~ Blake Shelton

If you can make her want you bad enough, she'll come after you. ~ Rose Wynters

Either invest or withdraw. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

Sex is the dessert in a relationship, not the appetizer ~ Linda Alfiori

The red flags are usually there, you just have to keep your eyes open wider than your heart. ~ April Mae Monterrosa

People of bad pride always have to have someone to reject. From politics to relationships ... just don't let it be you. ~ Phil Mitchell

It's real easy. All you have to do is love him. ~ Marie Marquardt

For men, sex is not equal commitment ~ Linda Alfiori

When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes. ~ Pamela Cummins

When we experience a new adventure, it changes us; thus, adventure is the link between who we were, and who we are destined to become. ~ Anella Wetter

Ah, Love ... what can I say?
16 to 18 love is like butterflies, colorful and fluttering
18 to 20 love is like roller coaster ride, bumpy and exciting
20 to 23 love is like a lab experiment, fun but you need to have practical results in the end
23 to 26 love is shopping, you want to keep trying until you find what fits exactly
26 to 30 love is arrangement, you settle with the convenient and feasible options
After 30, will tell you when I am there ... ~ Shahla Khan

You have to live the way you are going to end up. ~ Lujan Matus

Tragedy is when one's own faults makes them lose a treasure that had all their miserable lives been within their reach. Double tragedy is when one's own sheer cowardice won't just let them face those they secretly adore, love and cherish and confess their innermost convictions...of how much they had lived loving them, how much they had secretly cared, how much they were ready and willing to sacrifice and let go so they may be a part of their lives... ~ Levi Cheruo Cheptora

The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance or your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way.
That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over. There are no victims and no perpetrators anymore, no accuser and accused. This is also the end of codependency, of being drawn into somebody else's unconscious pattern and thereby enabling it to continue. You will then either separate - in love - or move ever more deeply into the Now together - into Being. Can it be that simple? Yes, it is that simple. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need. ~ Martha Macharia

Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it. ~ Frank Natale

If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who care about us is to hand over some maps that try to chart and guide others through the more disturbed regions of our internal world. ~ The School Of Life

Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake! ~ Rossana Condoleo

Love is blind to those who don't believe. ~ Anthony Williams-Bradford II

You'll come to learn that many times, the people you have problems with are not really the people you have problems with; but in actuality, the problems lie in the premises of everybody else in between you, in their suggestive glances, in their implications and tone of voice, in their provocations and less-than-noble intent. Again, it comes down to shutting out the noise that isn't supposed to be there and listening to your inner silence. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together ~ Alex Haditaghi

If a guy doesn't trip over himself to get to me, I'm not interested. I don't want to waste my time chasing what doesn't want to be caught. ~ Melissa Haag

Hooking up with people who do not care about your happiness or you; is a serious and big decision. If you do decide to hook up, you must have a good reason for it just as you would to have a relationship. ~ Shahla Khan

Worried about fitting in, being part of a group, feeling accepted? People gather in groups of similar interests, but these interests are usually based on external preferences and attires.
"We think that if other people like this sport or activity, they'll accept us without an interview or further questions, and we need that because we are afraid of standing naked in front of others, of showing whom we really are underneath the fake smiles and bland expressions of anger and pain: this nakedness is one of the heart and mind.
"It's within these groups that most people find their 'soul-mates' and 'fall in love' with the person they'll never get to know for real.
"Little did you know, you have to keep pretending to be someone else, while your partner is exhausted from having to put on a daily show just to please you. ~ Nityananda Das

Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power. ~ Frank Natale

In relationships... there are no failures. Just experiences. ~ Des Coroy

The correct relationship will make a person bloom. He becomes more himself, his talents deepen, his personality grows, and he thrives. But the wrong relationship will produce the opposite. The things that were once so vital no longer matter. His talents disappear, his individuality fades, and he wilts. ~ Jennifer Moore

A saint addicted to abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening of the articulations necessary to advancement, and, in fact, more renunciation than you would like; and men flee from this contagious virtue. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu. We live in a sad society. Succeed
that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. ~ Victor Hugo

Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again ... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi

There was an article in the New York Times that said that young men can't maintain healthy relationships because they're so influenced by pornography and what they see on the screen. It's something to be talked about ~ Carey Mulligan

Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards. ~ Sam Owen

Relationships: It takes wisdom to know when to turn the page and courage to know when to close the book. ~ Steve Maraboli

Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves. ~ Henry Cloud

By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of death, this is the how-to book to read. It's filled with thoughtful, nuanced advice from a teacher/writer who actually writes, and writes beautifully and with great humor. The list of rejected stories is worth the price of the whole book. ~ Nora Gallagher

As you ramble on through life, Brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole. ~ Margaret Atwood

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. ~ Rachel Cohn

If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right
and love again. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My thoughts are haunting me because the truth has set me free."
~Love is respect ♥~ ~ Charlena E. Jackson

It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona's legislature - and that was to seek out members that I often disagreed with on important issues. It was through our authentic relationships and mutual respect that we found common ground on legislation that helped people. The challenge for Congress is to move past the harsh partisanship that we saw in the last term. This is a critical step in advancing policies that will strengthen and protect LGBT families. ~ Kyrsten Sinema

What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

There's more mystical nonsense written about the process of writing than almost anything. Inspiration, genius, "the muse." So I want to lay out one huge, comforting, wonderful fact: the more you write, the better you get at it. Writing is like a forehand or driving a car or playing guitar. Practice makes you better.

That's not to say inspiration and genius don't exist. Not everyone can become Tolstoy through hard work. What it means is that, wherever you start, you can improve. And the way to do it is to write a lot.

I mentioned at the start of this piece that I've published eight books. When I flip through the first one now, I can't believe it ever made it onto shelves. I see so many flaws and problems in it that I'm amazed. The reason is that I've written hundreds of thousands of words between since then. As long as you produce a little something every day, every week, in time, invisibly, you'll get better. Trailing behind every successful writer are a million words that never saw the light of day. Sometimes it takes five million words. The most important piece of writing advice anyone can give or get is simple, and therefore can seem uninteresting, but it's true: just keep writing. ~ Charles Finch

Name: One Shade of Grey

Description: You'll recognise this phenomenon through an inability to tell where the pavement ends and the sky begins. Nothing has ever been achieved on a One Shade of Grey day, so if you notice one upon opening your curtains the best advice is to climb back into bed, drink gin through a straw and remember the 'Lost Sun' days of years past.
Most likely: Any of the 18 months of winter. ~ Rob Temple

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner. ~ Jude Morgan

Stay far away from problematic people.
In life...when a person is drowing they will try and pull the person closest to them down with them to save themselves. ~ Timothy Pina

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth. ~ Walid Jumblatt

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word! ~ R.C. Sproul

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever. ~ Rashida Jones

All people in relationships ever do is talk about their relationship status. It like a Ferris wheel. When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. ~ John Green

Schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them. ~ Toni Morrison

I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream. ~ Piper Payne

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money? ~ Suze Orman

I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes. ~ Farrah Abraham

I don't hate men because they're men, as nuns do. I dislike them because they're not men enough: babies, and playboys, and poor things showing off all the time, even to themselves. I don't say I'm any better. I only wish, with all my soul, that some men were bigger and stronger and deeper than I am... ~ D.H. Lawrence

Education is not the key to success; Education is key for success. ~ Kayambila Mpulamasaka

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships. ~ Brian Tracy

Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but Natasha had no interest in any such questions.
Questions like these, then as now, existed exclusively for people who see marriage only in terms of satisfaction given and received by the married couple, though this is only one principle of married life rather than its overall meaning, which lies in the family. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special. ~ Fiona Thrust

Every soul is a soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Men and women on relationships are like men and women on orgasms, except in reverse," Jason continued boisterously. "Women crave relationships the way men crave orgasm. Their whole being bends to its imperative. Men, in contrast, want relationships the way women want orgasm: sometimes, under the right circumstances. ~ Adelle Waldman

Stop worrying about your competition; focus on increasing your value proposition. ~ Kayambila Mpulamasaka

Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. ~ Mohsin Hamid

It's one of the things Cam and I discussed last evening- he said it's characteristic of Hathaway women, this need for demonstrations of affection."
Amused and fascinated, Poppy made a face. "What else did he say?"
Harry's mood altered with quicksilver speed. He threw her a dazzling grin. "He compared it to working with Arabian horses... they're responsive, quick, but they need their freedom. You never master an Arabian... you become its companion." He paused. "At least, I think that's what he said. I was half dead from exhaustion, and we were drinking brandy."
"That sounds like Cam." Poppy raised her gaze heavenward. "And after dispensing this advice, he sent you to me, the horse."
Harry stopped and pulled her against him, nudging her braid aside to kiss her neck. "Yes," he whispered. "And what a nice ride it was. ~ Lisa Kleypas

...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. ~ Daron Acemoglu

My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud. ~ Molly Ringwald

The average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: These notions of yours are all very fascinating, no doubt, but we make a decent living. Nobody has ulcers. I have time to work on my monograph about Balzac, and my foreman enjoys his espaliered pear trees. I think as a matter of fact, we do not wish to make the changes that you suggest. ~ Julia Child

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot. ~ Klaus Kinski

Never forget to forgive yourself; always remember to love yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha

Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself. ~ Renae A. Sauter

Healthy relationships require transformed hearts, not just transformed brains. ~ Steve Corbett

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. ~ Joan Rivers

You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything. ~ Bob Proctor

The principals are quite simple. We can love people who treat us well. We cannot love people who treat us badly because, treating someone badly is not a virtue and we can only love virtue. I don't think that's controversial. I mean, there is no marriage therapist that I can imagine in the world who would say to a woman being beaten, humiliated, verbally abused, or completely ignored by her husband, "You just need to love him more. You need to work at making him happier." That would be sadistic in the extreme to say to someone.
So, in the same way I say, if anyone, I don't care if they are your priest, god, father, mother, or your Siamese twin cousin coming out of your elbow or ass. I don't care. If someone is treating you badly, that is not good for you. The solution is not you being so great that you both become better. That's not a realistic solution. ~ Stefan Molyneux

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci