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850 Best Connection Quotes: Empowering Human Relationships

1. “The soulmate doesn’t have to be a romantic relationship. Sometimes in life, you meet people when you need them, and there is an immediate connection.” — Alison G. Bailey


2. “Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.” – Barbara Bush


3. You deserve to be in spaces and relationships that make you happy; that feed your soul and help you grow. You are worthy of connections that are loving, nourishing, kind and authentic. Before you settle for anything less than, remind yourself that the places you visit and people you journey with through life should make you feel safe, loved and enough. – Alex Elle


4. Life hits different when you choose boundaries over people-pleasing, connection over attachment, distance over disrespect, growth over comfort zone, healing over coping, peace over having the last word, progress over perfection, and solitude over fake company. Inner Practitioner


5. “A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes.” — Edgar Cayce


6. “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.”


7. “Connection is why we’re here. We are hardwired to connect with others. it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. and without it there is suffering.”


8. “I crave so much more than just a physical connection. I crave words and depth. I crave who you are and where you came from, your desires and fears. I yearn to know every inch of you beyond the surface.” – Solifequotes


9. “Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. ” ― Marsha Evans


10. “When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.” – Jack Kornfield


11. “Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don’t turn your hair gray. Don’t carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don’t lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”― Bryant McGill


12. “The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.” –Barbara De Angelis


13. “We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known. and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust. respect. kindness. and affection.”


14. “When we meet and fall into the gravitational pull of a narcissist, we are entering a significant life lesson that involves learning how to create boundaries, self-respect, and resilience. Through trial and error (and a lot of pain), our connection with narcissists teaches us the necessary lessons we need to become mature empaths.” — Mateo Sol


15. It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. — Mark Cuban


16. “Friends are special people with a deep connection between hearts. Thank you for holding the key to my heart and keeping it safe!”


17. “Empathy is a connection; it’s a ladder out of the shame hole.”


18. “I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.” ― Ranata Suzuki


19. “Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.” –Rita Pierson


20. “We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life it seems is the good life: a life with sustained relationships challenging work and connections to community.” —Paul Bloom


21. “My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn’t due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.” – Gary Vaynerchuk


22. “Always falling too deep in a relationship, always end up being the one that’s hurt the most.”


23. “My daughter introduced me to myself… the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something I’ve never felt before.” — Beyoncé


24. “The connection between father and daughter took me by surprise. Her birth revealed a love that I never knew existed.” ― Kevin Patrick


25. No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.” – Sarah Dessen


26. “I’ve studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that’s one of the reasons they’re so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It’s a dead issue. It’s like they’re color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.” – Jane Velez-Mitchell


27. A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games. - Anonymous


28. “The glue that holds all relationships together-including the relationship between the leader and the led-is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” ~ Brian Tracy


29. “Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss.” — Deepak Chopra


30. “I love you for who you are and where you are in life. For how well you understand me and our relationship. How well you know what turns me on and what turns me off. I love that you are always there for me, even when I don’t deserve it. That you have my back no matter what. That you support me even though we may be fighting. That you can see the good in everybody and everything. I love that about you. Good morning sexy lady!” – Calin


31. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” – William Paul Young


32. “Don’t be too much possessive in relationship, it will ruin the entire connection.” ~ Invajy


33. “I decided instead of being embarrassed of my failed marriage and ashamed of being a single mother, I was going to OWN it. Being the best mother you can be and giving your kids the BEST life possible has nothing to do with your relationship status and you don’t have to be happily married to have a ‘picture-perfect family.’” — Amanda Stanton


34. A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere


35. “I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.” –Mike Ericksen


36. “The soulmate doesn’t have to be a romantic relationship. Sometimes in life, you meet people when you need them, and there is an immediate connection.” — Alison G. Bailey


37. A genuine friendship is a rare and special thing, yet here we are. Our connection is unique, and I treasure our bond like a diamond.


38. “Trust is earned in the smallest of moments. It is earned not through heroic deeds, or even highly visible actions, but through paying attention, listening, and gestures of genuine care and connection.”


39. “Consistency is genuinely improving yourself to become a good match for those with whom you are in relationships while distancing yourself from people when their actions become too toxic.”― Dexter A. Daniels


40. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” —Israelmore Ayivor


41. “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Anonymous


42. Don’t play with someone’s heart if you have no intention intention serious relationship


43. “I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term.”― Nicholas Sparks


44. “It is the connection we can’t explain.”


45. “Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.” — Richard Wright


46. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”


47. "It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."— Mark Cuban


48. “I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.”


49. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. — Esther Perel


50. “When we come from an authentic. genuine place in ourselves. our efforts to connect with people work to their fullest. Our relationships develop more easily and last longer. and we feel better about the people”


51. “Being a mother to a little boy and helping him discover the world is one of the greatest experiences in a woman’s life, which makes objective goals dull in comparison. The connection between a mother and her son opens the gate to a new world of wonder and love.”


52. One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on ‘going it alone.’ Somehow, we’ve come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we’re very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It’s as if we’ve divided the world into ‘those who offer help’ and ‘those who need help.’ The truth is that we are both.


53. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”


54. “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” –Franklin P. Jones


55. “Make sure to not just keep love limited to words but act in love too. Words only matter and affect when a relationship has a strong base and is made after time and effort.”


56. “Many of us live in two worlds when it comes to relationships. In one we have connection without truth; in the other we have truth without connection.” – Henry Cloud


57. “We have our differences, but you never let it stand in the way of our relationship. It is such a wonderful thing to have someone like you in my life.”


58. You deserve to be in spaces and relationships that make you happy; that feed your soul and help you grow. You are worthy of connections that are loving, nourishing, kind and authentic. Before you settle for anything less than, remind yourself that the places you visit and people you journey with through life should make you feel safe, loved and enough. – Alex Elle


59. “I think fitness is important, a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.”- LL Cool J


60. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”— Wm. Paul Young


61. “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.”


62. “Vulnerability is the essence of connection and connection is the essence of existence” – Leo Christopher


63. “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower.” –Carole Radziwill


64. You know someone’s special to you when… you don’t talk for a while because things get busy but when you two eventually do it’s like you didn’t miss a beat. You talk like there was no gap in between and you laugh until both your stomachs hurt. It’s a rare and special connection and personally I think it’s pure magic. If you ever find someone like this in your life, never let them go.”


65. “Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don’t turn your hair gray. Don’t carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don’t lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”― Bryant McGill


66. “Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.” – Mario Puzo


67. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker


68. “Years before doctors informed me of my high-functioning autism and the disconnect it causes between person and language, I had to figure out the world as best I could. I was a misfit. The world was made up of words. But I thought and felt and sometimes dreamed in a private language of numbers” – Daniel Tammet.


69. “It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman


70. True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”― Ellen DeGeneres


71. Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. - Anais Nin


72. ‘Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead. —Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive Global


73. “We are careless with genuine people. because we know that they will always be there unconditionally loving us. No matter what we do. we know we cannot fall from their good graces. So we cast them off and push them aside. until there is a pull on something we need from them. That connection can never be severed. Even though we may not show them how much they mean to us. because we ourselves don’t even acknowledge it. Even when we’ve taken them for granted. they will still always be there with a smile like they mean it. because they do. These precious souls are the unsung heroes. the weirdos. and the ones we banish to the edge of the woods. But unlike the little red hen. when you come to them they will always share their bread. And that is what keeps humanity from starvation.” – Stocie Martin


74. “You deserve to be in spaces and relationships that make you happy; that feed your soul and help you grow. You are worthy of connections that are loving. nourishing. kind and authentic. Before you settle for anything less than. remind yourself that the places you visit and people you journey with through life should make you feel safe. loved and enough.” – Alex Elle


75. “You can plant a tree to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion or a business success. Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature.”― Amit Ray


76. “The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in.”


77. “I’m very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don’t look at other moms.” – Garry Shandling


78. Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.


79. “Friendship is love and care bonded relationship. And this is the feel you have given me in the course of days you were with me. I think this day is a very lucky day for me since this is the day you came to this world.”


80. “When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.”


81. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. – Eustache Deschamps


82. The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in.”


83. “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


84. ”Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty. ” – Harold Duarte-Bernhardt


85. “Relax and trust the timing of your life. You will figure out your career. You will find the right relationship. You will become the person you always wanted to be. Just don’t forget to appreciate who you are now. ” — Ruben Chavez


86. You gotta stop trying to build a real connection with fake people. Inner Practitioner


87. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” —Israelmore Ayivor


88. The relationship is not just meant for making love but to be with each other for lifelong.


89. “Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin.RD.COM


90. Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk


91. Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good. —Joanne Ciulla, American philosopher


92. When I first met you, I felt an instant connection. Years later I feel it still. I am so fortunate that I was able to marry a man who was not only my better half but my soulmate as well. Happy birthday husband!


93. “If you are a real human being, never break promises, trust and heart in your relationships.” ~ Invajy


94. “Sunday is a leisure day; when you can forget the responsibilities of your workplace and spend quality time along with family, friends and relatives.” ~ Invajy


95. "Patience and persistence are the keys to a successful career change. Having faith in yourself and being confident with your career-related decisions is essential.”


96. Understand the value of a good relationship. It is not only proclaimed, but also worked on.” – Unknown


97. Every relationship has its problems but what makes it perfect is when you still want to be there when everything goes wrong.” – Ritu Ghatourey


98. After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.” —Linda Jones


99. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.


100. “The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar


101. "The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.” — Wynonna Judd


102. “ Having trust makes love come alive. Trust isn't just the basis for a relationship; it's the lifeblood that keeps a relationship healthy. ” ― Mira Kirshenbaum


103. “Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.”


104. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” -Israelmore Ayivor


105. “If there’s no relationship with a father who’s absent, nobody talks about it.” – Charles B. Rangel


106. The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection with others.


107. Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.” – Alana Johnson


108. I believe in the kind of love that doesn’t demand me to prove any worth and sit in anxiety. I crave a natural connection, where my soul is able to recognize a feeling of home in another. Something free-flowing, something simple. Something that allows me to be me without question.”


109. “Leading with integrity and empathy requires vision and a connection to your deepest self.”


110. “I know we have a love/hate relationship. Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I’ll try to be nice to you today.”


111. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” – Brené Brown


112. “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere. ” – Unknown


113. I still recall the first moment that I looked into your eyes and knew that our connection was phenomenally special. Every moment I have spent with you since then has been truly exceptional. Happy birthday to the luckiest man I know.


114. “Have gratitude for the things you’re discarding. By giving gratitude, you’re giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.”


115. Memories of love are special intimate ways of connecting with your spouse. Let’s make the most of every moment in marriage or our relationships. Let’s grow in being creative in our love for one another. How we invest in our spouse now will one day be a treasured memory.


116. When the relationship ends, it is time to wave good-bye with gratitude.


117. “The most important thing in life is who I become through union with Jesus and the relationships I form and forge along the way.” -John Mark Comer


118. “We should expect hope’s reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope’s reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.” ~ Patrick Shade


119. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion.”


120. “I am a strong believer that a bad relationship must be brought to an end, no matter how.” – Unknown


121. I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body. — Brené Brown


122. “Communication + Trust = A relationship that will last a lifetime.”


123. It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson


124. “Be present. Be thoughtful. Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses. This is how to make a real and lasting difference in your relationships, new and old.” -Marc & Angel Chernoff


125. Are lies okay in a relationship?


126. “We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.” — Peter R. Grant


127. “I always feel a deep sense of comfort and connection with you. You really are more than my brother-in-law. You are my brother.”


128. “Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. It’s an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day” ~ Norton Juster


129. “A wrong relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.” — Unknown


130. “I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships are actually stronger because it was a mirror that reflected back on a problem that was happening. It’s hard.” ― Sutton Foster


131. “I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflicts, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.” – Ira Levin


132. “The most transformative and resilient leaders that I’ve worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First. they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy. and they stay curious about their own emotions. thoughts. and behaviors. Second. they understand and stay curious about how emotions. thoughts. and behaviors are connected in the people they lead. and how those factors affect relationships and perception. And. third. they have the ability and willingness to lean in to discomfort and vulnerability.”


133. As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.


134. “The Pagan stories are all about someone dying and rising, either every year, or else nobody knows where and nobody knows when. The Christian story is about a historical personage, whose execution can be dated pretty accurately, under a named Roman magistrate, and with whom the society that He founded is in a continuous relation down to the present day. It is not the difference between falsehood and truth. It is the difference between a real event on the one hand and dim dreams or premonitions of that same event on the other.”


135. “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


136. “My heart just skips a beat when my stepdaughter calls me dad, and she comes running to me so I can pick her up and hold her in my arms. We may not be connected by blood, but I’m pretty sure we’re connected in the most special way.”


137. I don’t want a relationship where they hold you back. I want a best friend I can sleep with, make love to, hustle with, travel with, shop with, chill, and live with. I want a partner in crime, a life partner. Someone that I can laugh and build with. Somebody that I can trust with my heart, my money, and my life. Somebody, I’m not afraid to lose because I know they will always be there. Relationships just aren’t for me, but a partnership, yeah, I will take that.”


138. “For me, recovery and self-care are inextricably connected. My recovery from abuse, addiction, and a suicide attempt required dump truck loads of self-care.” – Steve Austin


139. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.” – Neale Donald Walsch


140. “Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.” —Nick Richardson


141. “Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.” -Deborah Day


142. “Years before doctors informed me of my high-functioning autism and the disconnect it causes between person and language, I had to figure out the world as best I could. I was a misfit. The world was made up of words. But I thought and felt and sometimes dreamed in a private language of numbers.” – Daniel Tammet


143. Don't just relate, advocate.


144. “I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls, abandoned speedways, abandoned theme parks. To me, those are most interesting kinds of things to capture.” — Seph Lawless


145. "Eating disorders thrive in isolation, and having social support can deter individuals with eating disorders from engaging in health-damaging behaviors, like excessive exercise, restriction, or purging. When you're alone, like during the pandemic, there are no social deterrents, so the eating disorder can escalate unchecked. That is why reaching out and staying connected is so important even if it is virtually, especially as the pandemic continues to drag on."— Cynthia Bulik, PhD


146. When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true. – Cheryl Hughes


147. “It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships – often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it’s also among the most complicated.” ― Deborah Tannen


148. “No trust in a relationship is like having a phone without a network connection; you just use it to play games.”


149. "I don’t think our relationship is healthy for me to be a part of. I think we should break up.


150. There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help, and your life could be better if you go out and seek help.


151. “I don’t have bad relationships with my players. But I don’t get into long conversations with them either.” ― Scotty Bowman


152. The connection between heart and mind is short and well traveled.


153. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”


154. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” –John C. Maxwell


155. “We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known. and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust. respect. kindness and affection.


156. “Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have.” — Vivek Murthy


157. “Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.”— Chelsea Handler


158. “The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life.” ― Kristi Bowman


159. We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment unless there is loyalty unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West


160. Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it.” – Fred Rogers


161. “Someone said that our goals keep us going, but it’s our dreams that make us tick. So if you disconnect your goals from your dreams, don’t be surprised if one morning you realize that your life is on autopilot.”


162. “Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. It’s an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.”- Norton Juster


163. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. ” – Mark Cuban


164. "When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies – it’s all one. It’s one energy.”


165. “We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life it seems is the good life: a life with sustained relationships challenging work and connections to community.” —Paul Bloom


166. If you are in a relationship with an addict, you may struggle to understand why your partner continues to use, despite the negative consequences. Unfortunately, by the time a person exhibits symptoms of addiction, it may be too late to simply stop using. Drugs and alcohol can actually hijack important areas of the brain including the prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain that helps us recognize the dangers of addictive substances and make decisions.


167. In the morning, more than coffee, we need fresh flowers, a walk in the garden, and a quick and easy connection to nature. If we could all start our day that way, it might make our caffeine addiction go into remission.


168. “Being genetically related doesn’t make you family. Love, support, trust, sacrifice, honesty, protection, acceptance, security, compromise, gratitude, respect and loyalty is what makes you family.”


169. I think one of the neatest things about being a coach is the connection you get to make with your players. That's a loss that hits me a lot harder and is gonna stay with me a lot longer than anything that happens while playing a game on a patch of grass.


170. "The true beauty of music is that it connects people.”


171. “Every day is Valentine’s day in a happy relationship.”


172. Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.”- Mona Sutphen


173. “I think one of the neatest things about being a coach is the connection you get to make with your players. That’s a loss that hits me a lot harder and is gonna stay with me a lot longer than anything that happens while playing a game on a patch of grass.” -Ted Lasso


174. I know I don’t tell you that often enough, but you are the best man I know, my true inspiration and example of a man I want to become. I appreciate our special connection very much and love you endlessly.


175. Only when your love for someone exceeds your need for them do you have a shot at a genuine relationship together.


176. We may not be related, but you are my soul sister. You are all the family I need. You are just you and I love you for that. You are just you and I appreciate that. You are my soul sister forever.” – Katie Rose


177. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – Stephen Covey


178. “We expect professional and financial success to require time and effort. Why do we take success in our relationships for granted? Why should we expect harmony to come naturally just because we are in love?” – Eknath Easwaran


179. "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” — Nicholas Sparks


180. “The relationship of husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”


181. ‘It’s everything to me—our relationship. You’re my world.’


182. “I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn’t at the core of these two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can’t get to the right answer here.”


183. Akriroq Brost is coming up with reasoning here for why we feel good when we do good things and it makes perfect sense. That connection that comes from helping one really makes you realize we are all human.


184. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.” ― Albert Einstein


185. “You have a house, Piglet, and I have a house, and they are very good houses. And Christopher Robin has a house, and Owl and Kanga and Rabbit have houses, and even Rabbit’s friends and relations have houses or something, but poor Eeyore has nothing. So what we’ve been thinking is: Let’s build him a house.” — Winnie the Pooh


186. The pieces were placed in a fire under the copper, and they quickly blazed up brightly, while the tree sighed so deeply that each sigh was like a pistol-shot. Then the children, who were at play, came and seated themselves in front of the fire, and looked at it and cried, “Pop, pop.” But at each “pop,” which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a summer day in the forest; and of Christmas evening, and of “Humpty Dumpty,” the only story it had ever heard or knew how to relate, till at last it was consumed.


187. “No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.”― May Sarton


188. “A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.“


189. A brother and sister relationship is a special bond that strengthens over time.


190. Working through conflict, we maintain and build a strong but flexible, honest but loving connection in our relationship. – Aaron F. Steinberg


191. Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won’t cry, lips that won’t lie, and love that won’t die.” – Wiz Khalifa


192. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”


193. “I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.” – David Maraniss


194. “For all his inner suffering, the narcissist has many traits that make for success in bureaucratic institutions, which put premium on the manipulation of interpersonal relations, discourage the formation of deep personal attachments, and at the same time provide the narcissist with the approval he needs in order to validate his self-esteem.”


195. Happiness is not relative, it is subjective


196. “Consider your own life. When the relationship goes sour, when the feelings of futility come flooding in, when it feels like life is passing us by, when it seems that our one shot at significance has slipped through our fingers, when we can’t sort out our emotions, when the longtime friend lets us down, when a family member betrays us, when we feel deeply misunderstood, when we are laughed at by the impressive—in short, when the fallenness of the world closes in on us and makes us want to throw in the towel—there, right there, we have a Friend who knows exactly what such testing feels like, and sits close to us, embraces us. With us. Solidarity.”


197. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” – Brené Brown


198. “A conscious connection to your values helps you to transcend boredom and keeps you motivated to pursue your goal.”―Venugopal Acharya


199. “Leading with integrity and empathy requires vision and a connection to your deepest self.” ― Karla McLaren


200. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”


201. Shakespeare is related to everyone.


202. “No one sees your strength. do they? No one sees the silent battle you fight against your overprotective mind that’s trying to keep you safe from harm by keeping you safe from risk. safe from connection. safe from honesty. Maybe others don’t see. but you see it sometimes. don’t you? In the mirror. in those eyes. begging for someone to notice. You have noticed. It is real. You are strong. You are fighting for something incredible. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise—especially not your thoughts.”


203. “On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key because that’s where you’re relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.” – Rebecca Stead


204. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection.


205. "One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.” — Iyanla Vanzant


206. “True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit.“


207. Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego. ― Mark Matthews


208. Mothers play such an important role in the life of their sons. There is a deep connection between a mother and her son that starts from the moment of conception.


209. Beyond friendships adding to the list of improving life success and happiness, experts also assert that supportive relationships improve our odds of survival by fifty percent.” – Shasta Nelson


210. “A good relationship doesn’t need promise, terms, and conditions. It just needs a she who can trust and a he who can be loyal.”– Anonymous


211. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~ Steve Jobs


212. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“


213. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheat A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” — Israelmore Ayivor


214. “I love being pregnant. I have such an incredible connection with myself and with my body that I’ve never had before.” – Jessica Simpson


215. "My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors.” — Carrie Latet


216. “We need to grieve the ones we have loved and lost in this lifetime — not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” – J. W.


217. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection” – Brené Brown


218. I know what it’s like to have a broken heart. I know what it’s like to feel pain: When my songs don’t become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.


219. “Lies don’t end relationships, the truth does.” – Shannon Alder


220. “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited. disconnected. negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”


221. “Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.” ~ Anonymous


222. "In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”


223. “Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.” – Brené Brown


224. “You can’t just give up on someone because the situation’s not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.” – Unknown.


225. “Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.” — Joseph B. Wirthlin


226. “If you can't be yourself in a relationship. you don't have a real relationship.”


227. I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy. — Jared Kintz


228. “The darker dynamics of narcissism imply that one person in the relationship gives just about everything, and the other (the narcissist) just takes. If the relationship is reciprocal, compromise is effortless. The more challenging disappointments are the lack of empathy, the lack of connection, the lack of support.”


229. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.”


230. "It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” — Mark Cuban


231. “Don’t be too much possessive in relationship, it will ruin the entire connection.” ~ Invajy


232. “Only when your love for someone exceeds your need for them do you have a shot at a genuine relationship together.” ~ Neil Strauss


233. “I think one of the neatest things about being a coach is the connection you get to make with your players. That’s a loss that hits me a lot harder and is gonna stay with me a lot longer than anything that happens while playing a game on a patch of grass.” – Ted Lasso


234. “When it comes to boundary-related problems, we usually think about how we’re hurt when we don’t set boundaries or when others don’t respect our boundaries. But it’s important to remember that boundaries are a two-way street. Many of us need to work on respecting other people’s boundaries, not just asserting our own boundaries. ” – Sharon Martin


235. “Professionalism makes work relationships healthy, foolishness and dishonesty erodes them.” – Ty Howard


236. “By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with, and you don’t have to have it figured out perfectly the first time – you can adjust.”


237. “When we’re anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze, and food, and work, and endless hours online feel like comfort; but in reality, they’re only casting their long shadows over our lives.”


238. “Get s**t done… People that know they gotta work every day, them the kinda people I respect. I respect people that build a career for themselves. I don’t give a d**n if it’s a hustle that’s already big or you go to work at Kroger every day, the grocery store. Or you work at Walmart. You work, so I respect you. You don’t work, what can we do? We can’t relate.”


239. “Connecting with others gives us a sense of inclusion, connection, interaction, safety, and community. Your vibe attracts your tribe, so if you want to attract positive and healthy relationships, be one! Staying connected and getting reconnected feeds the flow of goodness which empowers our humanity.”―Susan C. Young


240. “By being remarkable. being genuine. you can be worth connecting with. and you don’t have to have it figured out perfectly the first time – you can adjust.”


241. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” — Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping The Dream


242. We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.” — Jean-Michel Cousteau


243. When people don’t tell you the truth, what they really are saying is they don’t value you or their relationship with you enough, to be honest.” — unknown


244. "When you are in a real relationship, you never have to pretend to be someone that you’re not.


245. "Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed.” ― C. JoyBell C.


246. “When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.” – Mandy Hale


247. Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved.” — William Paul Young


248. “Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were.” — David Bainbridge


249. “A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They’ll both watch the same movie and…play.” ― Emmy Rossum


250. “Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.” –Nick Cannon


251. If a relationship gets boring question yourself


252. “Marrying you was a big step I was ready to take only because I thought there was a special kind of connection between us. Your betrayal was like the scissor that cut this thread we shared right in the middle.”


253. “Friendship happens when you instantly connect, you instantly understand and you instantly feel comfortable with someone.”


254. “Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends. ” – Brene Brown


255. “Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.” ― Jill Biden


256. “The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.” –Barbara De Angelis


257. “Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable; exercising the compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made of strength and struggle; and nurturing the connection and sense of belonging that can only happen when we believe that we are enough.”


258. Vulnerability is the essence of connection and connection is the essence of existence.


259. "We need to take our relationship to the previous level.”


260. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”


261. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress.” ― Nora Roberts


262. “It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” Diane Von Furstenberg


263. “What how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.” – Guru Ram Dass


264. “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” –C. Joy Bell C.


265. Broken people lead to broken hearts. That's why it's so important to heal from one relationship before starting another. - Mandy Hale


266. You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.” – Anonymous


267. “When you get into a bad relationship the best thing you can do is get out of it as soon you can.” – Unknown


268. The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity. – Brian Tracy


269. The connection between heart and mind is short and well traveled. Tobin Burgess, ‎Kevin Pugh, ‎Leo Sevigny, The Personal Vision Workbook


270. It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone


271. “A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” ― Dionne Warwick


272. I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose. When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.


273. The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter’s lives the relationship becomes a permanent maybe. – Victoria Secunda


274. My daughter introduced me to myself. The connection that I had with her when I was giving birth was something I’ve never felt before. – Beyonce


275. “Soul Sister: A female friend not related by blood who shares a bond that transcends, time, space and distance. Traits include: listening and fully understanding without judgement or solution; knowing the right thing to say; sharing belongings or desserts; regularly reminding one another of their beauty.” – Unknown


276. “One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on doing it alone.”


277. While this birthday message is short, it is sweet and to the point. It can be used for mothers who have a close relationship with their son.


278. “When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it’s about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless. ” – Candace Cameron Bure


279. “The opposite of nice is being real. It’s being direct, honest, and truthful. It’s saying what you really think, expressing how you really feel, and sharing what’s true for you in that moment. This authenticity allows others to see and know the real you, which allows you to really feel love and connection ”—Aziz Gazipura


280. “As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.”


281. “The culture of shame is driven by fear. blame. and disconnection. and it is often a powerful incubator for issues like perfectionism. stereotyping. gossiping. and addiction.”


282. “Trust is the foundation on which buildings of all relationships are built.” ~ Invajy


283. Friends make themselves known in our lives through the connections we make on social media, on sports teams, and even at work. These connections can last forever and provide us with people who care about us no matter what happens in life.


284. “Thank heaven for the special relationship between fathers and daughters. It is blessed from above.”


285. Watch my Ted Talk on what I learned about the relationship between addiction and identity.


286. “Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mother’s suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.” ― Gro Harlem Brundtland


287. A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” – Lois Wyse, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration


288. “I now see how gifts like courage. compassion. and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.”


289. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.. - Euripides


290. “Sibling relationships outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.”


291. “A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.”


292. “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


293. "There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” – Diana Cortes


294. “Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.”


295. “I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else but truly doesn't know how.”


296. Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going. - Carol Dweck


297. As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice. You can either be right, or you can be happy.


298. Your brain has only a tiny thread of a connection to the outside world …


299. “We should expect hope’s reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope’s reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.” ~ Patrick Shade


300. “It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells … to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”– Dave Barry


301. “I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.” – Jane Velez-Mitchell


302. “During this period, Japan’s peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.” Hideki Tojo


303. “A great relationship is about two things: First, appreciating the similarities and second, respecting the differences.” ~ Invajy


304. “As we said earlier, one of the great problems of spirituality in our day and age that so few people feel safe enough to admit is how separated we feel from God. We rarely experience God’s presence throughout our day. “Love, joy, and peace” does not describe the felt experience of many Christians. Often we come to church hoping for a God hit—a fleeting moment of connection to God before we return to the secular wasteland. Could the antidote for this spiritual malaise be as “easy” as silence and solitude? If our theory is right and the problem is more our absence than his, more about our distraction than”


305. “I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy.” –Jarod Kintz


306. ”What does it mean to be a brother? Is it a person related by blood that happens to be a male sibling? Or, is it more a kinship born out of commonality and honed by the continuing sparks of life's events? Understandably, a brother is more than a person born - it is a person grown together through the hills and valleys united in success and joined in defeat.” — Theodore W. Higgingsworth


307. “My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors.” — Carrie Latet


308. “My dear wife, Please accept my apology and give me a chance to nurture our relationship, once again.”


309. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides


310. Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.” – Vironika Tugaleva


311. “Believe makes a relation stronger. A little doubt can spoil all the beauty of relationship.”


312. “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” — Carole Radziwill


313. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections. ” — Israelmore Ayivor


314. “Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.”


315. The amount of work you find to do is directly correlated to how much you actually care. ― Andrew Tate


316. I purposely stray away from clicking on anything drama related cuz feeding into that shit you inviting it into your life.


317. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. ” –William P. Young


318. To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.— Gina De Gorna


319. “Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.”― Gift Gugu Mona


320. “Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.” – Jane Austen


321. Once you accept the reality that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful relationship can grow.”


322. “The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together… is trust.”


323. “Being single is smarter than being in the wrong relationship.” — Unknown


324. “People stand in front of an officiant and say ‘I do' but that shouldn't mean ‘I'm done' when it comes to putting time and effort into growing their relationship.”


325. I came to understand that in order to feel, we need to re-connected to our own feelings as well as those of others.


326. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ”


327. “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.” ― Vironika Tugaleva


328. “It feels great to be connected to people, but having boundaries is so important.” – Selena Gomez


329. People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship. – Lauren London


330. “Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that’s at the center of my music.”


331. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection. – Johann Hari


332. A family is more than a blood connection! Happy Birthday to my stepdaughter, who brings me eternal joy and smiles!


333. “Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run.”


334. “Black Girls… Until you get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to go through the same thing. Constant arguing. Constant fighting. Constant lies. Constant disappointments. Constant emotional rollercoaster. Constant heartbreak. Constant headaches. Constant threats. Constantly fighting for his attention and love. Constantly looking through his phone. Constantly sneaking through his personal belongings. Constantly arguing and/or fighting with other women over who’s supposed to be YOUR mate. Secretly checking up on him due to a lack of trust. Listen, NOBODY is worth your inner peace! What I’ve listed above is NOT a relationship. It’s a toxic mess. So, what are you going to do?”


335. “Once someone cheats in the relationship, there’s no reason to stay. If they truly loved you they would’ve never cheated.” — Anurag Prakash Ray


336. “Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow—a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them.”


337. “No one is perfect, to have long lasting relationship, one must have to compromise in life” ~ Invajy


338. “It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”


339. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us. and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective. meaning. and purpose to our lives.”


340. Hidden resentments poison a relationship; so if something bothers you, say it.”


341. It’s a brand new chapter for you, son. I share a great bond and deep connection with you. Happy 14th birthday!


342. “The darker dynamics of narcissism imply that one person in the relationship gives just about everything, and the other (the narcissist) just takes. If the relationship is reciprocal, compromise is effortless. The more challenging disappointments are the lack of empathy, the lack of connection, the lack of support.”


343. "Base your relationships on the right values."—Dick Gephardt


344. Future Best Friend: It truly is a blessing to have a sibling, so why not celebrate this special connection by announcing a future best friend is expected. Have your child hold a sign (via Stayglam. , or stage a little tea party for two, reserving the seat for baby. (via Caitlin Houston


345. Thank you for being a charitable and kind neighbor. You help keep everyone in this place connected and smooth over all the troubles that occur. For that, you firstly deserve a gold medal, and secondly, you deserve to have a great year.


346. “You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t. ” — Caleb Carr


347. “Results from a prospective study of 25,892 Norwegian women clearly showed that consumption in excess of 750 ml of whole milk a day leads to a relative risk of breast cancer of 2.91 compared with consumption of less than 150 ml with a relative risk of 1.0.”


348. There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.. — Martin Luther


349. Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” – Wiston Auden


350. As a result of these difficulties, the fear of stigma may motivate some individuals to hide specific behaviors related to their mental illness or deny that they are having issues. Mental illness can become a defining piece of the individual’s personality and cause their interactions to be categorized by their mental illness.


351. “The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.” — Ruth Ozeki


352. “Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.” – Asa Don Brown


353. “If you start a relationship being the other woman, you will never be the only women.”


354. “Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.”


355. Both emotion and connection are expressed in epitaphs. However, you want to avoid being overly florid or sentimental.


356. I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy. -- Jared Kintz


357. “Emotional self-defense… When you set healthier relationship standards in your life, some people will take it personally. That’s their issue, not yours. The distance isn’t against them; it’s for you. It’s a boundary, not a grudge.” – Steve Maraboli


358. #74 “Cheating on a girl is deeper than people realize. It destroys her outlook on love, her future relationships, and her peace within herself.”


359. “I felt an inner peace and softness. My Berlin Wall had been cracked; the toxic relationship between me and that critical voice had been severed.”― Penny De Villiers


360. “I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.”


361. “The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you’re with. You have to every single day, mind, body, and spirit, wake up with a commitment to be better.” –Will Smith


362. “Corrie ten Boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy. There’s truth in that. Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect—they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.”


363. How do I break the silence in a relationship?


364. “It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy”.- Groucho Marx


365. “Sometimes, boundary violations don’t leave us any good choices; we may ultimately realize that the only way to regain safety, self-respect, and well-being is to end a relationship, leave a job, move, or give up something else that’s important to us. ” – Sharon Martin


366. “People often silence themselves. or “agree to disagree” without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement. for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection.”


367. “Maybe we feel good when we help others because some small part within us remembers and connects to the knowing that we are all one.”- Akiroq Brost.


368. “I once had a ‘best friend‘ share private stories that I had told her in confidence to another mutual friend. I think the worst part, aside from the actual betrayal of trust, is that this experience affected my future relationships, as I was hesitant to be as open with my other friends.”


369. “It is always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t”


370. “Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.” – Susan Scarf Merrell


371. Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”


372. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” Oprah Winfrey


373. "The fastest way to feel connection, a sense of how significant your life is, a deep sense of certainty and variety, and put yourself in a state where you can give to others, is to find a way each day to appreciate more and expect less."


374. Don’t give up at the first signs of friction: only through clear communication, flexibility and willingness to adapt can you find a relationship that will weather the storms of life.” – Tom Miles


375. “Happy birthday to the one family member I’m least ashamed of being related to. Love you, sis!”


376. You are my soul sister. We are bound to experience sisterhood together in a deeper connection than any other sisters ever will when they are bound only by blood.”


377. God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.


378. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.” – Brené Brown


379. “To find peace, sometimes you have to be willing to lose your connection with the people, places, and things that create all those noises in your life.”


380. “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.” – Vironika Tugaleva.


381. #54 “Secrets and lies kill relationships. No matter how careful you are, you will get caught.”


382. A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.” – Greta Scacchi


383. “Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.” — Nick Richardson


384. “If your connection to the real world is full of calm reassurance, you can go about your task of letting go.”


385. “One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.” — Iyanla Vanzant


386. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved


387. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive” – Brené Brown


"388. That statement hit me like a ton of bricks, and I knew in my heart it was true. I made a decision on that day that I would not drink until further notice. I had no idea at that time how long that would be, but I knew I had to try something I’d never tried before, which was cutting out drugs and alcohol completely from my life.




When I got back to Cancun, I began reading about alcohol use disorder and educated myself on why I drank. I started a blog about my sobriety and began forming connections with others through the online recovery community. A year into my sobriety, I tried 12-step meetings, and I also found meditation and CrossFit to be helpful. Every good thing I have in my life is a direct result of choosing recovery every single day.” — Kelly F., 32, sober for four years"


"389. I made a commitment to try sobriety, developed a strong spiritual practice, and eventually found yoga. I decided not to let my relationship with alcohol affect my ability to be social or have fun. I started feeling and looking better—along with my bank account, might I add. After a year, I accepted sobriety as a lifestyle, and I’ve been on a mission ever since to show people that sober is the new cool.” —Carly Benson, 36, sober for nine years




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‘I wouldn’t trade all the shit I endured over the years for what I have today'


“As far back as I can remember, I had two elements of mental illness: a low level of constant anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. These chemical imbalances were the perfect breeding ground to foster a binge-drinking problem.




To quiet my mind and shed my once pervasive ‘nerd’ identity, alcohol was the perfect antidote. I didn’t realize that not everyone partook in underage (and then, of age) drinking—and that my behavior wasn’t considered the norm. As many of my peers in recovery say, first it was fun, then fun with problems, and then just problems. All the ‘peace’ and confidence drinking provided in the moment would be completely erased the next day, as my body and mind would be wrecked by the physical and emotional ravages of the night before. Losing phones, breaking bones, ambulance rides to the hospital for safekeeping. These weren’t normal rites of passage."


390. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen. heard. and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”


391. “Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.” ~ Alan Lightman , Reciprocal quotes feelings


392. “Brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.” — Thomas R. Insel


393. “I often say, my last relationship failed and didn’t paralyze me. My last heartache didn’t kill me. Why would this one? I will not break.” — Sujeiry Gonzalez


394. Many people exist but they do not live. Jonathan Swift hopes everybody will truly live everyday of his or her life. Living is adventuring, building relationships and learning what you can bring to life.


395. “I am going to shatter this nice guy shell. I’m going to be honest and direct. I’m going to face whatever discomfort I need to face, learn whatever it is I need to learn, do whatever it takes to feel more confident, powerful, and capable. To enjoy a deep, fulfilling relationship with the love of my life. To be the powerful man I’m meant to be in this world. ”—Aziz Gazipura


396. “Secrets and lies kill relationships. No matter how careful you are, you will get caught.”


397. “In healthy relationships, communicating your needs is welcomed and respected. In unhealthy relationships, people ignore you, push back, or even challenge your boundaries. ” – Nedra Glover Tawwab


398. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”


399. "My daughter introduced me to myself... the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something I’ve never felt before.” — Beyoncé


400. “Be in the world, but don’t let the world be in you. Love, and yet don’t be lost in it. Relate, and yet be alone, utterly alone. Know perfectly well that all relationship is a game: play the game and play it as beautifully as possible and as skillfully as possible.” – Osho


401. Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.” ― Joyce Meyer


402. “Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.” ― Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living


403. “When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone. I had much more time. attention. love. and connection for the important people in my life.”


404. “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”


405. Each day of the week is special in its own way and brings us a different set of challenges. Among them, Tuesday seems like the poorer relative, but in fact, it is one of the days when most things are accomplished and when many things are ticked off the list.”- Unknown


406. Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins


407. The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” – B. R. Ambedkar


408. “Vulnerability is the essence of connection and connection is the essence of existence.” — Leo Christopher


409. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. ” — William P. Young


410. A healthy relationship requires you to let go of the bitter memories of past and moves on with a new hope. . – Adam Green,. A healthy relationship requires you to let go of the bitter memories of past and moves on with a new hope. . – Adam Green,


411. “Being generous, just helping one’s relatives and being blameless in one’s actions; this is the best good luck.”- Buddha ( Heartless Selfish Quotes )


412. “Some people treat relationships as a video game, they play them and when they get bored they cheat.” — Unknown


413. “Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn’t honoring your feelings, it’s not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that’s a red flag!”– Doreen Virtue


414. “After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.” ~ Linda Jones


415. “I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” – Woody Allen


416. “I love getting older. My understanding deepens. I can see what connects. I can weave stories of experience and apply them. Things simply become more and more fascinating. Beauty reveals itself in thousands of forms.” – Victoria Erickson


417. “A good father-daughter relationship ….can empower daughters to believe in themselves and to prosecute a case with conviction and confidence. It can bestow upon a girl a sense of belonging, a self-efficacy and a resilience for life.” – Madonna King, Fathers and Daughters


418. “Cheating is the most selfish thing a person can do in a relationship! If you’re not happy with the person you’re with then end it. It’s that simple!” — Jerry Springer


419. “You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh. Translation: Just because you’re no longer under the Mosaic covenant, don’t abuse your newfound freedom in Jesus; don’t give in to your disordered desires. Instead, give yourself over to the relational constraints of love.”


420. “When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again.”―Angel Moreira


421. “Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.” – Jill Biden


422. "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


423. Ruining every relationship you are in because of this other person you are obsessed over.


424. Disconnection can trigger a vulnerability so emotionally painful that we'll do just about anything to avoid feeling it.


425. 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.” – Nicholas Sparks


426. “Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.” – Leona Lewis


427. “Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.” – Richard Wright.


428. “Every time we sow to the flesh—or put another way, every time we give in to our flesh’s desire to sin—we plant something in the soil of our hearts, which then begins to take root, grow, and, eventually, yield the harvest of a deformed nature. . . . Thankfully, the same is true of the Spirit. Every time you sow to the Spirit and invest the resources of your mind and body into nurturing your inner man or woman’s connection to the Spirit of God, you plant something deep in the humus of your central fulcrum, which, over time, takes root and bears the fruit of a Christlike character.”


429. “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection. ” – Vironika Tugaleva


430. “There is no reason to believe that a bad relationship can be fixed, sometimes you have to let go.” – Unknown


431. “Having depression is being in an abusive relationship with yourself.” – Emily Dotterer


432. “Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It’s a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me, and I feed off them.” — Burna Boy


433. “Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow. a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”


434. “Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.” - Paul Rand


435. I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.


436. A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you have in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.” –Unknown


437. It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone


438. “Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people “no darn good any way”. People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn’t hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.” -Henry Cloud


439. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban


440. “A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.”― Dionne Warwick


441. Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence. -Robert K. Cooper, PhD


442. Trust is one of the most important things in a relationship. It won't work if you don't trust each other. — Unknown


443. Healthy relationships… Let’s not forget it’s you and me vs. the problem… NOT you vs. me.” – Steve Maraboli


444. “All that is said behind, if said on the face, will result in disaster. You won’t have any relations. And life becomes such a mess.”


445. “Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.” – Brene Brown


446. “I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.”


447. Good relationship doesn’t need promises, terms, and conditions. It just needs a SHE who can trust and a HE who can be loyal


448. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” –


449. “Happiness is inversely correlated with desire.” ~ Invajy


450. "Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille


451. “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”― Rick Riordan


452. “Distance simply means separation in place but never in connections. Heart remains inseparable.”― DhelChen


453. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” – William P. Young


454. “I love being pregnant. I have such an incredible connection with myself and with my body that I’ve never had before.”– Jessica Simpson


455. “My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn’t due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.” – Gary Vaynerchuk


456. Everything is connected' was probably a phrase first coined by an Old Soul.


457. I believe in a quiet, strong and grounded leadership. I think some of the best leaders are those whose work is widely known and respected but who, themselves, are relatively unknown. —Rachael Chong, founder and CEO of Catchafire


458. “Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.” ― Lysa TerKeurst


459. “To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident – it is to have a soulmate for life.” —Victoria Secunda


460. “Brands that take proactive steps to address customer concerns demonstrate customer centricity, which earns customer trust and builds relationships.” (Gartner)


461. “I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.” – Jayson Williams


462. “Our relationship has gone beyond brother-in-law to just brother. I love that about you and so glad that I have you in my life!”


463. “So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.” –Ellen DeGeneres


464. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”


465. Something about flowers spark memories. I love these spontaneous bold and beautiful flower connections. Patricia C. Gallagher, The Happy Flower Day Project


466. “No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.” – Anonymous


467. “You work, so I respect you. You don’t work, what can we do? We can’t relate.”


468. “Most important is the recognition that stepparenting is different from primary parenting. It can be just as satisfying, it can be a reciprocally loving and caring relationship between parent and child, and it can provide some very good moments when it works, but it is different.” ―Claire Berman


469. If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. -Daniel Goleman


470. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. . – Barbara Kingsolver. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. . – Barbara Kingsolver


471. “I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.” — Gloria Vanderbilt


472. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” – Israelmore Ayivor


473. “It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” –Anthony Storr


474. “Compassion begins by acknowledging the shared humanity that connects us all.” – Pema Chödrön


475. Imagine how much stronger your relationship could be if you simply worked together to build each other up.” –Unknown


476. “I define wholehearted living as engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, no matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.”


477. “Some people don’t love you, they don’t even care about you. They just want to stay connected to you. They love the benefits. So they do the minimal… A little phone call here and there, just checking on you… What they are really doing is maintaining the connection, so when they need/want you, they still have a way in.


478. If you’re looking for a role model, Gandhi is a great one. He sets the bar pretty high to befriend all living things. Nature can be our greatest and most rewarding friend. She doesn’t ask for a reciprocating relationship. It feels that Nature is the only true martyr in all creation.


479. “Connecting with others gives us a sense of inclusion, connection, interaction, safety, and community. Your vibe attracts your tribe, so if you want to attract positive and healthy relationships, be one! Staying connected and getting reconnected feeds the flow of goodness which empowers our humanity.”―Susan C. Young


480. “We are wired for connection. But the key is that, in any given moment of it, it has to be real.”


481. "In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” – Ram Dass


482. Our first instinct to anything new or challenging is being skeptical about it working out, or even if it is a good plan. Be it a new relationship, a new job, or shifting to a new place, it sure might be scary to the core, but it is an opportunity to make it to bigger achievements in life.


483. The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it’s as simple as that.” – Ashly Lorenzana


484. “I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.”


485. Coach Beard's views on romantic relationships are not too dissimilar from his views on cooking steak. You know, you spend any more than five minutes on one — it loses its flavor.


486. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” – Joseph Campbell


487. “The number of people struggling with pregnancy-related stress, pain, and anger at a time that we collectively pretend is the happiest of their lives is staggering.” – Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger


488. In a relationship, trust is more important than love. It will enhance your love. — Unknown


489. “We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.” –Justin Timberlake


490. We’re often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection.. — Gabby Bernstein


491. “They say long distance relationships will teach you to communicate well… We should be mind-readers by now.”


492. “People are primed for being easily deceived. People also expect to be told the truth under most circumstances. Our moral codes teach that lying is wrong, and this code is enforced by parents, teachers, and religious institutions. Even in the criminal justice system, a vow begins each trial with the promise to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” Indeed, society depends on the trust between individuals; it is part of the glue that holds personal relationships and society together.” – Gini Graham Scott


493. “If you have to ask to be treated right, you are around the wrong people. On the other hand, if you allow this behavior to enter into the relationship from the start, it can and will continue, and will be very difficult to change up later. Set your boundaries sooner than later.” – Christine E. Szymanski


494. No matter what is going on in your day-to-day life, keep making time for Him (God) so that your relationship can grow strong and you can walk in the fullness of the blessing He has prepared for you! Joel Osteen, Fresh Start


495. “It’s so sad that some people can lie to your face as if you are not blood-related.” – Samuel Zulu


496. “With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.” — Brad Pitt


497. “Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than they are.”– Allan Lokos


498. Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.


499. We can not control a relationship. We can only contribute to a relationship. All relationships, business or personal, are an opportunity to serve another human being.”- Simon Sinek


500. The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. —Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free


501. “If people put in the same effort to keep you as they did to get you, most relationships would last.”


502. “The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.” – Joyce Carol Oates


503. “God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.” —Ethel Watts Mumford


504. The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” – Stephen R. Covey


505. If your connection to the real world is full of calm reassurance, you can go about your task of letting go.


506. “In relationships, the little things are the big things.” – Stephen Covey


507. “Our relationship is meant to be, something that was written in the stars and drawn into our destiny.” ― Unknown


508. “Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone- there’s nothing like it.”


509. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness." — Leo F. Buscaglia


510. “Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.” ~ Alan Lightman , Reciprocal quotes feelings


511. In a sense, the bluebirds carry the sky on their backs. I think Thoreau wants us to realize that nature is all connected. The birds bring the sky to us in the sense that without them, we might not even notice it. Today, we probably notice airplanes more than birds, but it sure isn’t nearly as poetic.


512. “In a relationship each person should support each other. They should lift each other up.” –Taylor Swift


513. “I think when you’re telling a story from inside of you that’s genuine, people connect with it.” G-Eazy


514. [D]o you realize what is true of you if you are in Christ? Those in union with him are promised that all the haunted brokenness that infects everything—every relationship, every conversation, every family, every email, every wakening to consciousness in the morning, every job, every vacation—everything—will one day be rewound and reversed. The more darkness and pain we experience in this life, the more resplendence and relief in the next.


515. “Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.”


516. “The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.” – Rollo May


517. “One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on ‘going it alone.’ Somehow, we’ve come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we’re very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It’s as if we’ve divided the world into ‘those who offer help’ and ‘those who need help.’ The truth is that we are both.”


518. “Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mother’s suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.”


519. “Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries. spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter. and seeing the value of working on cultivating a connection with family and close friends.”


520. Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers. — Frederick R. Reichheld


521. I’m so glad to be related to you not just by royalty but by blood. Happy birthday to my king father. Many more shall you witness.


522. “We may not be related, but you are my soul sister. You are all the family I need. You are just you and I love you for that. You are just you and I appreciate that. You are my soul sister forever.” – Katie Ro


523. “I decided instead of being embarrassed of my failed marriage and ashamed of being a single mother, I was going to own it. Being the best mother you can be and giving your kids the best life possible has nothing to do with your relationship status, and you don’t have to be happily married to have a ‘picture-perfect family.'” – Amanda Stanton


524. “A relationship without trust is like a car without fuel, it can’t move ahead.”


525. “Falling in love, finding your way into a new relationship is one of the best feelings in life. At first it’s all so effortless. But as time goes by, remember that love is a verb and that you have to put continuous effort into it to keep it blossoming and not slowly wither.”


526. “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.”


527. "Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”


528. Parenting... Strip it down and what do you really have? A relationship with a unique, little person god entrusted to you to nurture, love, and raise.” — Mathew L. Jacobson


529. “Distance doesn’t ruin a relationship. Doubts do.”– Anonymous


530. “My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.” ― Anna White


531. “I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.”


532. “We’ve lost touch with our souls. We’ve been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health… but we’ve abandoned our souls.” — Mike Yaconelli


533. “A real relationship is two-way.”– Sophie Kinsella


534. “My pregnancy was unplanned. I feel like a terrible mom because I’ve been too depressed to enjoy any of it. I feel no connection to my baby.”


535. “The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” ― Tony Robbins


536. Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. - Mario Benedetti


537. “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.”


538. “When I’m hungry, I eat what I love. When I’m bored, I do something I love. When I’m lonely, I connect with someone I love. When I feel sad, I remember that I am loved.” ~ Michelle May


539. “The policy of self-isolation and continuous silence are the greatest destroyers of marriage and relationship.” ― Mwanandeke Kindembo


540. “My connection with you is undeniable, my love for you is unbelievable, my bond with you is unbreakable. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you. Happy birthday, my wife!”


541. In today’s world, options are everywhere. It takes a great effort to stay faithful, continue to honor your commitment, and do the work it takes to keep your relationship strong.”


542. “It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” – Diane Von Furstenberg


543. “I am grateful to be alive and still have the quality of life which makes it possible for me to spread awareness related to the benefits of detecting prostate cancer early.” — Mical J. Roy


544. “A stepdaughter is a little angel given by God. We may not be related to my blood, but we’re still family, and I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her happy.”


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546. “A relationship is not a test. So why cheat?” ― Unknown


547. “A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.”― Karen Salmansohn


548. Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. – Barbara De Angelis


549. My dearest husband: When you hurt, I hurt. When you laugh, I laugh. When you feel sorrow, I cry. We are connected in more ways than one. Two souls forever commingled. I love you. Happy Birthday!


550. Healthcare authorities neglect the role of psychological factors in pandemic­ related infection even though these factors are important for many reasons.” – Steven Taylor


551. Love is unconditional, relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmundson


552. “Fitness is like a relationship. You can’t cheat and expect it to work.”


553. “Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won’t be an end.” –Anthony Robbins


554. The falling in love part is easy. It’s the keeping it together part that takes consistent choice day after day. To do the work. To show up for your partner and yourself. It’s not that relationships are hard; it’s that they require effort. Choose to make one.” – Mark Groves


555. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. ”


556. “People often silence themselves. or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement. for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we avoid certain conversations. and never fully learn how the other person feels about all of the issues. we sometimes end up making assumptions that not only perpetuate but deepen misunderstandings. and that can generate resentment.”


557. “A relationship is not a test. So why cheat?” — Unknown


558. “You deserve to be in spaces and relationships that make you happy; that feed your soul and help you grow. You are worthy of connections that are loving. nourishing. kind and authentic. Before you settle for anything less than. remind yourself that the places you visit and people you journey with through life should make you feel safe. loved and enough.” – Alex Elle


559. “No one knows how you treat yourself, but it’s the most important relationship you have.” – Bill Masur


560. “Carl Jung wrote. ‘Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.’ We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out. when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist. we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness. and becoming our own wilderness. we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters most. ”


561. A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other.”


562. A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.” – Dinkar Kalotra


563. “The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.” –Pandora Poikilos


564. “Some people don’t love you, they don’t even care about you. They just want to stay connected to you. They love the benefits. So they do the minimal…A little phone call here and there, just checking on you…What they are really doing is maintaining the connection, so when they need/want you, they still have a way in.”


565. “What keeps us in bad relationships isn’t that all men are jerks or that relationships are so hard or that we’re unworthy or that all the good guys are taken. What keeps us in bad relationships is low self-esteem. When you don’t value yourself. you will accept and even welcome people who don’t value you into your life.”


566. “I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.” – Jennifer Lopez


567. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” – Israelmore Ayivor


568. I am sick of the lies that you’re telling me. Day after day, you keep telling me them, but I know all about you and your weakness for other women. I know how easy it is for you to lie and manipulate people in order to get what you want—even if that means destroying our relationship so that other people won’t find out about your cheating.


569. Humor helps build connections and relationships in ways that few other social interactions can. Gregory Peart, You Can Be Funny and Make People Laugh


570. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that; time reveals all eventually, and everything comes to light at some point or another. Your actions dictate our relationship; once you show me who you are for real, then you can make your own choices about whether my reality check is something you want to accept or not.


571. “Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So. in a funny sort of way. vulnerability is attractive.” — Zoe Buckman


572. “I think we should campaign to have the word brother-in-law removed from all the languages of the world so that it remains as just ‘brother.’ Then all extended family relationships would be as sweet as ours.” – Anonymous


573. “Our relationship went from happiness. to love. to doubt. to fights. to stress. to pain. to hate. to regrets. to memories that won’t go away.”


574. “Silence falls, pulsing with the truth of what I’ve learned and what Dean has yet to acknowledge. Our relationship, our love, cannot and will never be perfect. It will, however, always belong only to us in all its flawed, intense beauty. Perfect in its very imperfection.” ― Nina Lane


575. “This relationship has something special about it, that makes every father and every daughter in the world speak warmly about it.”


576. “Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. ”


577. “It’s the connection we can’t explain.” – Unknown


578. “I’ve studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that’s one of the reasons they’re so convincing because they have no connection with the truth. It’s a dead issue. It’s like they’re color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.” ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell


579. “In relation, if you are suppressing the other one, they will talk behind your back.”


580. “The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” – Brian Tracy


581. “The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection—the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.”


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


583. “The connections we make redefine who we are and can change who we become.” – David Amerland


584. “Be single and save yourself for a relationship that motivates you to become the best version of yourself. Be single until you find a love that resembles the type of love you’ve been fighting for.” – R.H. Sin


585. “Toxic people are great actors. They will utilize whichever props are available to maintain control in the relationship.” — Shannon Thomas


586. Working through conflict, we maintain and build a strong but flexible, honest but loving connection in our relationship. – Aaron F. Steinberg


587. “The culture of shame is driven by fear, blame, and disconnection, and it is often a powerful incubator for issues like perfectionism, stereotyping, gossiping, and addiction.”


588. “Radical transparency can be painful—perhaps relationship-threatening. But it’s more likely to open the door to strengthening the foundation of your relationship.” – Douglas LaBier


589. “I don’t speak on it all, but I notice. These mental notes have always been on point, I’ve never been naïve. Don’t underestimate what I know just because I’m selective about what I share. People think that just because you don’t care to catch them in every single lie that you aren’t paying attention. That’s a mistake. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that. Time reveals all; eventually, everything comes to light. Your actions dictate our relationship. I don’t keep people in my life who haven’t shown me they deserve to stay. The little things add up. Always remember that.”


590. “If relationship become too much painful, better to say NO and move ahead. Someone better is waiting for you.” ~ Invajy


591. “We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West


592. The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.” — Joan Benoit


593. “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 Sweat


594. “Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others – how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.” — Ang Lee


595. “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”


596. “No relationship is perfect and people who say they don’t argue are either liars or biting their tongues all the time.” –Kym Marsh


597. “My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.”- Taylor Caldwell


598. For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships. – Lauren Jauregui


599. Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. – Stephen Covey


600. “Love is what remains in a relationship after all selfishness has been eliminated.”


601. “Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.”― Jean Webster


602. Fathers and daughters, connected by heart right from the start! —Paige DeRuyscher


603. “You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.” — Unknown


604. “People often silence themselves. or “agree to disagree” without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement. for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection.”


605. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides


606. “Long-distance relationships are hard. But they’re also incredible. If you can love, trust, respect, and support each other from a distance, then you’ll be unstoppable once you’re physically together.” – Jay Shetty.


607. “Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.”


608. True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita


609. “Love, connection, and acceptance are your birthright. To claim them you need only look within yourself.”


610. “For me, vulnerability led to anxiety, which led to shame, which led to disconnection, which led to Bud Light.”


611. “And if you learn to have those difficult conversations in a loving, honest, and responsible way, your relationships can become better than you ever thought they could.” – Henry Cloud and John Townsend, How to Have That Difficult Conversation


612. “My daughter introduced me to myself. The connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something I’ve never felt before.” ― Beyoncé


613. “Being alone may scare you, but staying in a bad relationship will damage you.” — Unknown


614. When I look at you, I don’t just see a boyfriend…. I also see a best friend….I also see a caring father…. In this one relationship, I have found many other beautiful associations….. Wishing you a very Happy Father’s Day.


615. “Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.” —Joanne Ciulla, author and educator


616. “The phrase a personal relationship with Jesus is nowhere in the Bible. I’m not saying we don’t have one, but people take that idea way too far. You are not saved into a vacuum. You are saved into a community of called-out ones. Jesus saved us to reconcile us to God and to people.”


617. “It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” ~ Diane Von Furstenberg


618. A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” — Unknown


619. “‘Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead.” —Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive Global


620. “The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity” – Brian Tracy


621. “All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.” – Unknown


622. My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.


623. “If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”


624. A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. — Alvy Singer, Annie Hall


625. None can relate to my sadness, not even the ones who have been through what I have.


626. “Each day of the week is special in its own way and brings us a different set of challenges. Among them, Tuesday seems like the poorer relative, but in fact, it is one of the days when most things are accomplished and when many things are ticked off the list.”- Unknown


627. Wake up and smile because we have the most spectacular relationship. I love you.


628. “Saying NO can be the most empowering word if you struggle with codependency, abusive relationships or low self-esteem.”


629. "We now know that close friendships and affectionate relationships play a huge role in our mental health and well-being and influence how our bodies work.” ― Paul Gilbert


630. In a world that is more connected than ever before, it is more important for us to keep up with the ability to connect with others. Connections can be made in our professional and personal lives.


631. Sweet good morning messages are a romantic way to start the day right with the woman in your life. Quotes for girlfriend that express your warm feelings help fuel deeper connections with your wife or girlfriend and are an easy, wonderful way to strengthen any relationship.


632. “The relation between one heart and another heart is called love, but the relation between heart and heartbeat is called friendship.”


633. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. — John C. Maxwell


634. “Conflict is easy because we’ve all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.” Melonie Diaz


635. “A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.”


636. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks


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638. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” ~ Stephen Covey


639. The most wonderful thing about nature is that it can fulfill every need we have. We can find a way to play in the beautiful playground that has been given us. We can also connect in a spiritual way that is almost grounding. At the same time, we are healed in a way we can’t explain.


640. Removing the wrong relationships from your life are as important as cultivating the right ones. Shane Parrish (Source)


641. “By setting aside time every day, we can leave the pixelated wilds and rest at least for a little while in a place of unplugged, authentic human connection.” – Meghan Cox Gurdon


642. "Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.” – Jim Carrey


643. "And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.” — Spike Milligan


644. “A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies.” – Anonymous


645. “True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit.” — Lailah Gifty Akita


646. “Self–confidence is primary and then finding your passion is an adventure. a quest that may take time. It may switch over the time of your life. Gates explains. “but those deep relationships will let you pursue it with vigor.” Bill Gates


647. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel


648. When trust is broken, it does not need to be the end of a relationship. Much can be learned from staying in a relationship and learning from the conflict situation. - Dr. Margaret Paul


649. “A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person.”


650. “Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.” – C. JoyBell C.


651. “Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God. for others it's nature. art. or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.”


652. “I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.” Mike Ericksen


653. “If you let her know that she is your priority and remind her from time to time how much you in fact care, you’ll be amazed at how many problems disappear in your relationship.” – Unknown


654. Sweet good morning messages are a romantic way to start the day right with the woman in your life. Quotes for girlfriend that express your warm feelings help fuel deeper connections with your wife or girlfriend and are an easy, wonderful way to strengthen any relationship.


655. “The survival of a relationship depends on whether a person would still decide that she can continue trusting the other.”


656. Robert Bloch relates friendship to peeing yourself in a funny metaphor. Urine is warm and you can feel it when it is on you. Friendship brings a warm feeling that you can only feel when you have it.


657. “The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.” — Anthony Kiedis


658. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” -Israelmore Ayivor


659. “Your relationship should be a safe haven, not a battlefield. The world is hard enough already.” — Unknown


660. “It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.” —Axl Rose, lead singer of Guns N’ Roses


661. A deep emotional relationship cannot be built overnight. It takes time, patience, and a lot of effort. But once you have found that special someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with, it will all be worth it.


662. “Distance doesn’t ruin a relationship. Doubts do.” – Unknown.


663. “The struggle of my life created empathy—I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.” — Oprah Winfrey


664. There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.


665. The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.” — Stephen Covey


666. “Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.” ~ Mike Paul


667. I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.”


668. A mother who has a best friend relationship with her son can use this birthday message to let him know how loved he is on his special day


669. ‘To my mom, happy birthday! I just want you to know how much I truly treasure our special relationship and love we share.’


670. “There is an entire psychological substructure that, due to the fall, is a near-constant manufacturing of relational leveraging, fear-stuffing, nervousness, score-keeping, neurotic controlling, anxiety-festering silliness that is not something we say or even think so much as something we exhale. You can smell it on people, though some of us are good at hiding it. And if you trace this fountain of scurrying haste, in all its various manifestations, down to the root, you don’t find childhood difficulties or a Myers-Briggs diagnosis or Freudian impulses. You find gospel deficit. You find lack of felt awareness of Christ’s heart.”


671. “Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one’s sense of self” – Amy Bloom


672. “Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don’t love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.” – Deborah Moggach


673. When we meet and fall into the gravitational pull of a narcissist, we are entering a significant life lesson that involves learning how to create boundaries, self-respect, and resilience. Through trial and error (and a lot of pain), our connection with narcissists teaches us the necessary lessons we need to become mature empaths.” — unknown


674. “Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”


675. “We’re often afraid of being vulnerable. but vulnerability creates genuine connection.”


676. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections. ” — Israelmore Ayivor


677. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” — Stephen R. Covey


678. “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” ~ Cornel West


679. “Many of us live in two worlds when it comes to relationships. In one we have connection without truth; in the other we have truth without connection.” – Henry Cloud


680. “In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.” — Taylor Swift


681. “One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on ‘going it alone.’ Somehow. we’ve come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand. but we’re very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It’s as if we’ve divided the world into ‘those who offer help’ and ‘those who need help.’ The truth is that we are both.”


682. We appreciate the opportunity you have provided for the business to become stronger in the relationship.


683. “Avoidance occurs on two levels. On the first level, there is an emotional avoidance of all distressing memories, thoughts, and feelings about the trauma. On the second, there is a behavioral avoidance of the people, places, conversations, activities, objects, and situations that cause those distressing trauma-related memories, thoughts, or feelings.”


684. “I miss that feeling of connection.


685. “My phone battery lasts longer than your relationships.


686. “Being in recovery has given me everything of value that I have in my life. Integrity, honesty, fearlessness, faith, a relationship with God, and most of all gratitude. It's given me a beautiful family and an amazing career. I'm under no illusions where I would be without the gift of alcoholism and the chance to recover from it.” - Rob Lowe, actor


687. Your personal and professional relationships could be at risk because you’ll respond to situations unreasonably and impulsively. And that will only affect you, not the person or situation you are angry about.


688. “A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.” ~ Beau Mirchoff


689. This birthday message can be used for mothers who have a close relationship with their son and want to make his birthday special.


690. A mother who has a best friend relationship with her son can use this birthday message to let him know how important he is to her on his day.


691. “What we’re all striving for is authenticity. a spirit-to-spirit connection.” – Oprah Winfrey


692. “I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.” ― David Levithan


693. "I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.” – Carrie Brownstein


694. “Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” – Martha Beck


695. “Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.” -Kemi Sogunle


696. “A healthy relationship requires you to let go of the bitter memories of past and moves on with a new hope.” – Adam Green, T.D.


697. “The relationship of husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” – B.R Ambedkar


698. “Your brain has only a tiny thread of a connection to the outside world … ”


699. A mother can send this message to her son on his birthday to let him know that she never wants their relationship to end in a humorous way.


700. Successful relationships start by giving up control, giving up the need to be loved or wanted or right all the time.. — Mark Manson


701. “The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.” — Carroll Quigley


702. “Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.’”


703. "Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” — Martha Beck


704. “As everything we do in this world, be it work, business, politics or relationships, it is through humans, and we may still be successful if we understand and use the basic laws governing human nature and behavior to our advantage.”―Abhishek Ratna


705. Even a friendship needs an effort from both sides. How can we expect a relationship to work from the effort of one!” – Unknown


706. It was just a personal thing. I was just reflecting on what I go through. And really relating to everybody else going through the same thing as me. Being from Chicago, ya feel me, and the streets.


707. “Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”


708. “Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body” “meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit,” -Amy Adams


709. Mom, we may not have always had the best of relationships, but we have always had love for one another. You may be difficult, but you are also caring. I hope your special day is filled with warmth and laughter.


710. “He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten!”


711. All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it.. — Unknown


712. “I define wholehearted living as engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage. compassion. and connection to wake up in the morning and think. no matter what gets done and how much is left undone. I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking. Yes. I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid. but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.”


713. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ” — Stephen R. Covey


714. "In the best relationship, you know about each other’s pasts and as a result, love each other even more.


715. “Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” — Jerry B. Jenkins


716. We miss you so much. I know you will always be there in our memories and hearts to guide us and watch over us. Rest in peace, sweetheart.I have loved you so much that I can never forget you. Your memories are embedded in every cell of mine. I can never get over you, my love. Rest in peace.Dear one, death cannot make any difference to our bond, the love we shared. Our relationship is eternal. Miss you, honey. Rest in peace.I pray for your peace in your afterlife. I never knew God would take you away from me this soon. You were too young to die. Rest in peace.You were my true soulmate. You have made my life worth it. You are an irreplaceable loss in my life. May your departed soul rest in peace!I hope this is a bad dream and you wake me up from this nightmare. I wish I could spend many more days with you watching the sunset on the beach. May you rest in peace!It is not just you who left this world today but along with you left my smile, joy and sleep. I don’t know how to survive without you. Rest in peace!I can never ever forget you because we are one. I do not know how to wake up tomorrow without you by my side. Rest in peace dear!You have shown me what true love is. You have given me all the care and affection. Now I am used to all the pampering. Without you how will I survive, darling? Rest in peace!


717. “Most relationships fail not because of the absence of love. Love is always present. It’s just that one loves too much and the other loves too little.” – Unknown


718. “Genuine relationships depend first on healthy relationships with ourselves.”


719. “Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.”


720. “Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?” ~ Mike Shinoda


721. The relationship between husband and wife is very psychological. One is psycho and the other is logical


722. It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. - Mark Cuban


723. Some disconnections will bless your life.


724. If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. – Ryan Holiday


725. “Being in recovery has given me everything of value that I have in my life. Integrity, honesty, fearlessness, faith, a relationship with God, and most of all gratitude. It’s given me a beautiful family and an amazing career. I’m under no illusions where I would be without the gift of alcoholism and the chance to recover from it.” — Rob Lowe, American actor


726. "We loved with a love that was more than love.. – Edgar Allan Poe #relationshipgoals


727. Don’t let some people’s blasé attitude towards human relationships in the modern world fool you into thinking that humans are dispensable… Good people are your key to sanity. Good people are your survival.


728. People who live with mental health conditions often find hope in connecting with others who may share the struggle. Others who’ve recovered or learned to manage their condition can find themselves motivated to share advice.


729. “There is no WiFi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.”


730. It didn’t matter whether we met often or not, what mattered is that your advice helped me connect my life’s dots. It didn’t matter whether we spoke every day or not, what mattered was that you loved me a lot. Dad, I miss you.


731. “The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.” – Wynonna Judd


732. “People don’t understand loyalty in this generation, too many temporary friendships, and relationships.” – Unknown


733. “Brands often forget a key component in the customer experience and personalization equation: human emotion. Studies show that we primarily rate brands based on personal feelings and experiences—not information. And when a positive emotional connection is created with a brand, 92 percent of us are more likely to stay loyal to a brand, 88 percent are more likely to spend more, and 91 percent are willing to advocate on behalf of the brand.” (Deloitte)


734. “A simple life gives birth to more clarity, inner peace and meaningful relationships.” – Margo Vader


735. Assumptions are the termites of relationships." — Henry Winkler


736. “And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.” — Ben E. King


737. Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age. - Author: John Cotton


738. “People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.”


739. Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.


740. “Don’t reconnect with toxic people just because you are lonely right now. You don’t drink poison when you are thirsty.” — Etoilepoesie


741. “A relationship without trust is like a cell phone with no service, all you can do is play games.”


742. We're often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection.


743. “The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.” ~ Carroll Quigley


744. I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” — Julia Roberts


745. “Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheat A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” — Israelmore Ayivor


746. “But now, having followed up what seemed puzzling and repellent in the sacred books, I find, to my great surprise, looking back, that the connection is perfectly clear.”


747. “Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.”


748. Lord, calm my nerves and help me to to confidently relax in your peace. May I trust in your plan - a plan that is for a good future! Give me strength and patience in the coming day as I help my husbsand recover from this surgery. Grow our relationship through this and may we come out of it with a stronger faith. In Jesus' name, amen.


749. Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationships.”― Wm. Paul Young


750. “I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection — connection with that broken part of ourselves and with each other — and we can’t achieve that connection while pretending we are okay. We’re not okay.” — L.M. Browning

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