“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.” – Doménico Cieri Estrada
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” – George Eliot
“In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” – Anthony Robbins
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore
“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.” – Lao Tzu
“Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won’t have regrets.” – Anonymous
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” – Helen Rowland
“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” -Alexandra Penney
“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there’s no reason to continue.” – Unknown
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
“God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.” – Addison Mizner
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – C.G. Jung
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” – Henry Winkler
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