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My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.
Oct 1, 2025
Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.
A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.
All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.
Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.
Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.
I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.
The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
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
I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
People who hold on to grudges, insist on being right, and try to change other’s minds have a difficult time maintaining healthy, happy relationships. Surrendered people easily forgive. They are open to new ideas, and aren’t attached to being “right.” As a result, people love working and collaborating with them. Others seek them out as mediators and advisors. They are more laid back and relaxed than their rigid counterparts, which makes them highly valued by others. They are passionate and emotional.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.
Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
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.
Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
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.
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.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.