Here are some relationship quotes taken from philosophers, statesmen, actors and actresses, humorists, scientists, and authors. Some are names you will recognize, some are probably names you’ve never heard before. But all have something of value you can glean, whether immediately or after thinking and wondering about them for awhile. We can all learn to appreciate our relationships better by pondering quotes like these.

Feel free to share your favorite relationship quotes or provers in the comments.

Enjoy!

---

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. — Gillian Anderson

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found. — Winston Churchill

Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.  — Stephen R. Covey

To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.  — Eric Fromm

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.  — Kahlin Gibran

Let there be spaces in your togetherness. — Khalil Gibran

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller — Helen Keller

Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made – like bread, remade all the time, made new. — Ursula K. LeGuin

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?  — Stephen Levine

Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.  — Margaret Mead

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.  — Caroline Myss

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. — Anthony Robbins

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.  — Keith Sweet

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Mark Twain

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. — Flavia Weedn

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

Tags: Relationship Quotes