1. Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. - Rollo May
2. The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. - Robert Anthony
3. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. - Willa Cather
4. 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
5. Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. - Mike Murdock
6. I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does. - Grace Kelly
7. Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. - Joyce Brothers
8. Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. - Joyce Brothers
9. Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. - Douglas Coupland
10. My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner
11. In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space. - Helena Bonham Carter
12. I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. - Humphrey Bogart
13. Everybody needs somebody. - Mahalia Jackson
14. I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. - Ron Chernow
15. Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. - Andre Maurois
16. Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. - Ralph Ellison
17. Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. - Mortimer Adler
18. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. - Helen Rowland
19. 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
20. Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it. - Marian Keyes
21. I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. - Shirley MacLaine
22. I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.' - Michael Ian Black
23. Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
24. It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. - Maurice Chevalier
25. When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected. - Orlando Bloom
26. The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood
27. Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs. - Marianne Faithfull
28. Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. - Dorothy Day
29. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. - Luigi Pirandello
30. What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? - Jacques Lacan
31. Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married. - Errol Flynn
32. People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe. - Toni Collette
33. You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens. - Kirsten Dunst
34. Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? - Jean Giraudoux
35. I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together. - Ryan Lochte
36. It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad. - Kristin Davis
37. Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler
38. We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier
39. Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather. - Dale Evans
40. You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. - Keith Sweat
41. I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single. - Penelope Cruz
42. My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff. - Cuba Gooding, Jr.
43. Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself. - Carmen Electra
44. I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. - David Rockefeller
45. A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover. - Ninon de L'Enclos
46. If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. - Katherine Jenkins
47. I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods. - Liv Tyler
48. People change and forget to tell each other. - Lillian Hellman
49. In a relationship you have to open yourself up. - Neil LaBute
50. God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. - Addison Mizner
51. A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. - T. Berry Brazelton
52. A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust. - Beau Mirchoff
53. Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. - Oliver Hudson
54. I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with. - Sara Paretsky
55. A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. - Greta Scacchi
56. My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that. - Alison Sweeney
57. I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all. - Tori Spelling
58. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. - Hugh Mackay
59. It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. - Anthony Storr
60. Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me? - Dionne Warwick
61. Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. - Remy de Gourmont
62. When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box. - Anne Rice
63. That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. - Richard Schickel
64. I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. - Jasmine Guy
65. You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship. - Daisy Fuentes
66. I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck. - Anjelica Huston
67. You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot. - Victoria Pratt
68. I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. - Ron Silver
69. Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. - Will Cuppy
70. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha
71. Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
72. It's pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football's later on down the line. - Tim Tebow
73. Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. - Piet Mondrian
74. As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them. - Hugh Jackman
75. The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. - Rollo May
76. The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art. - Takashi Murakami
77. For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is. - Peter Lindbergh
78. Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. - Adrienne Rich
79. I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. - Ezra Cornell
80. My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through. - Marya Hornbacher
81. If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? - Virginia Woolf
82. I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost. - Steven Wright
83. I have a great relationship with the Mexican people. - Donald Trump
84. I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women. - Donald Trump
85. I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them. - Donald Trump
86. I love Neil Young. And he loves me! We have a great relationship. - Donald Trump
87. Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. - Marilyn Monroe
88. I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor. - Barack Obama
89. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. - Steve Jobs
90. The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. - Michael Jordan
91. There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office. - Joe Biden
92. I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg. - Joe Biden
93. 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. - James Baldwin
94. But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. - James Baldwin
95. God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. - Stephen Hawking
96. I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. - Bill Gates
97. God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people. - Dolly Parton
98. Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. - Eckhart Tolle
99. Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success. - Eckhart Tolle
100. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. - Les Brown
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