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
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian Dramatist, Novelist, Short Story Writer
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
I like her because she smiles at me and means it.
—Anonymous
My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
—Unknown
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
—Mike Murdock
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002) American Writer, Essayist, Critic
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
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
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
—Betty Friedan (1921–2006) American Feminist Author, Lecturer
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
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
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 (1875–1926) Austrian Poet
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 Television Journalist, Author
No road is long with good company.
—Turkish Proverb
There is no difference between robbing a Jew or robbing a Gentile; if any, to rob a Gentile is a greater sin than to rob a Jew.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
—Domenico Cieri (b.1954) Mexican Author, Aphorist
Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Writer, Poet, Children’s Books Author
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
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, Novelist
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
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
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
—Joan Baez (b.1941) American Singer, Songwriter, Activist
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
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