Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Relationships

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future—and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
Mike Murdock

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Joan Baez (b.1941) American Singer, Songwriter, Musician

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.
Mike Murdock

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner (1926–2022) American Writer, Theologian

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan (1921–2006) American Feminist Author, Lecturer

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German Literary and Marxist Critic

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman (1905–84) American Dramatist, Memoirist

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.
Anonymous

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch (1919–99) British Novelist, Playwright, Philosopher

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American Poet, Journalist

Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
Unknown

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now – they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.
Anonymous

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Linda Ellerbee (b.1944) American Journalist

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

The thing that’s between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you’re a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we’re alike.
Marguerite Duras (1914–96) French Novelist, Playwright

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz (1914–98) Mexican Poet, Diplomat

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships… the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough (1899–1989) American Author, Journalist

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
Margaret Mead (1901–78) American Anthropologist, Social Psychologist

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