Relationship Quotes for Insight on Human Relations

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Relationship Quotes for
Insight on Human Relations

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Great relationship quotes give us a rich selection of insights into the nature of human relationships, and how to make the best of them. We can gain understanding about how relationships best thrive, why they sometimes falter, and the joys that building strong connections with ourselves and others can bring us.

These first few relationship quotes point out the benefits that we can gain by having good companionship in our lives. Whether it is the support of someone to help us through the tough times, someone to confide in, or someone with whom to enjoy spending time, relationships can fulfill many of our basic human needs.

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

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” Miles Franklin

“No road is long with good company.” Turkish Proverb

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” Swedish Proverb

Other relationship quotes warn us of the relationship pitfalls that we would be best off avoiding. These quotes advise us to base our relationships on deeper qualities than just appearance, to be willing to communicate openly, to allow our loved ones space to grow, and to avoid assumptions.

“Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.” Zig Ziglar

“A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.” Shakti Gawain

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

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” Henry Winkler

It is also an unhealthy relationship pattern to allow one partner to be become the ‘savior,’ of the other, as this next quote illustrates.

“In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her ‘parachute’ - and the other accepts this role - both will fall to the ground.” Guy Finley

There are many wonderful relationship quotes, such as the ones that follow, that provide gems of advice about creating good relationships. Accepting and loving your partner as they truly are, developing flexibility rather than rigidity, learning to balance the needs for space and togetherness, keeping a loving attitude in times of conflict, and living fully in the moment are a few of the lessons we can learn from these quotes.

“The magic words for a great relationship are, 'I love you just the way you are'.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.” Ardant du Picq

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

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” William James

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Further relationship quotes focus on the learning and growth that we can achieve through any relationship that we are in.

Deepak Chopra tells us that, “However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the ‘right’ person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.”

Chopra also says, “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”

Some relationship quotes center on the longest, and arguably most important, relationship each of us will experience – the relationship with ourselves.

Wayne W. Dyer tells us that, “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with,” and Norman Vincent Peale says, “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”

Shirley MacLaine emphasizes the importance of our relationships with ourselves in the following words. “I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”

The next two quotes encourage forming good relationships with ourselves as a basis for creating good relationships with others.

“Be good to yourself. People will only treat you as well as you treat yourself.” Mark Victor Hansen

“Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.” Russ Von Hoelscher

These final two relationship quotes give us ideas of how to recognize and define a good relationship.

“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” Leo F. Buscaglia

“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

Human connections are indeed, one of the most challenging, rewarding, and important aspects of our lives and the inspiring words of relationship quotes can help us make the most of the precious gifts that our relationships can bring us.