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71 Relationship Quotes That'll Give You All of the Warm Fuzzies

These quotes about relationships will remind you to tell the people you love how you feel.

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Over the course of your life, you will encounter many different kinds of relationships. There will be friendships, lovers, long-term partners and oftentimes the types of relationships that defy labels altogether. Each relationship will bring something new to your life or bring something new out of yourself; each is an opportunity to learn and to grow and to be challenged. Reading through these relationship quotes will encourage you to take stock of the relationships you have in your life and all the different things they bring to you. Whether you're observing and appreciating your romantic relationships or you're feeling grateful for your very best friends, these quotes about relationships will help you put words to the way your closest friends and lovers make you feel.

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These quotes about relationships can also be especially useful if you're struggling to express how you feel. For people who aren't always eager to speak their feelings aloud, writing a letter is a great way to tell the people in your life how important they are to you. And if you can't seem to find the right words to say, one of these relationship quotes might offer the perfect phrasing of the thought you constantly have about your loved one. So go forth and glean some wisdom about relationships, and don't forget that some of the most important relationship wisdom of all is to be honest, to say how you feel, and to make sure that how you feel toward someone is never a secret.

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"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coehlo

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." — Maya Angelou

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"We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allen Poe

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"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart." — Mahatma Gandhi

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." — Carl Gustav Jung

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"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." — C. JoyBell C.

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"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too." — Ernest Hemingway

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"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

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"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect." — Criss Jami

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"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

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"Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best." — Gabriela Mistral

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"It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late." — Roy L. Pickering Jr

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"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart." — Alice Walker

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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." — James Baldwin

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"The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival." — Audre Lorde

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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." — Pablo Neruda

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"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends, we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars." — Isabel Allende

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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges

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"Love is the absence of judgment." — The 14th Dalai Lama

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"You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you." — Bob Marley

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

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"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

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"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational." — Hugh Mackay

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"Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." — Bob Marley

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"Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you." — Walter Winchell

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"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves." — Shirley MacLaine

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

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"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better." — William Shakespeare

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"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me." — Humphrey Bogart

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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." — Washington Irving

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