126 Romantic Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love

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Have you ever fallen so deeply in love that you couldn’t find words to describe your feelings? The following list of beautiful relationship quotes is coming straight from the heart and highlight the infinite power of love. And if you can’t get enough of good quotes, be sure to also have a look at our inspirational love quotes.

Being in a healthy relationship can be one of the most rewarding aspects of life. There’s nothing quite comparable to having someone you can trust wholeheartedly and someone who will stand at your side through thick and thin.

“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
J.K. Rowling

Interestingly enough, scientific research has shown time and time again that having no significant relationships in life can be quite unhealthy. One study even highlighted the correlation between social relationships and mortality risk.

Relationship quotes

These relationship quotes will inspire you to reignite your passion for love

The power of love can move mountains, it can help you to overcome the greatest challenges of life. Without love, life would be a painful tribulation without end. Relationships add a very special flavor to life that no one who ever tasted it would like to miss.

126 Romantic Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love

What is wonderful about the following quotes about relationships is that they all originate from people who have loved intensively and wholeheartedly. These philosophers, authors, and adventurers have found just the right words to adequately describe the beauty of having found your significant other. These are the wonderful individuals who help us to celebrate our love each day. Enjoy reading! As a bonus, we have also added some more quotes:

Here’s our list of beautifully romantic relationship quotes

1.

Don't settle quote

“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

2.

Purpose of relationship quote

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

3.

Inspiring quote about relationship

“Life isn’t always about logic and reasons – sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.”
Julie James

4.

Being in love

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
Dali Lama

5.

Working relationship

“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves”
Greg Behrendt

6.

“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

7.

“Daddy told me once – when I’d said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was – that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they’d fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they’d eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other’s curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.”
Karen Marie Moning

8.

“It is not enough to just say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless.”
Rick Warren

9.

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

10.

“A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.”
Thomas Moore

11.

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”
Bruce Lee

12.

“Isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood?”
Gillian Flynn

13.

“Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is “T-I-M-E.”
Rick Warren

14.

“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”
Deepak Chopra

15.

“I found out that a healthy relationship isn’t so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It’s about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types.”
Deb Caletti

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16.

“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

17.

“That’s how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other’s naked hearts.”
Tennessee Williams

18.

“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
Eckhart Tolle

19.

“What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”
Michel Foucault

20.

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Mitch Albom

21.

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.”
Barbara De Angelis

22.

“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

23.

“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”
Bell Hooks

24.

“How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It’s not only possible, it’s essential.”
Elizabeth Gilbert

25.

“Your relationship would improve immensely if you’d simply start speaking kind, positive words, blessing your spouse instead of cursing him or her.”
Joel Osteen

26.

“Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing, in particular, goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”
Cora Carmack

27.

“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… The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
Sarah Dessen

28.

“The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.”
David Levithan

29.

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”
Bell Hooks

30.

“If he’s not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.”
Steve Harvey

31.

“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”
Colleen Hoover

32.

“The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.”
Toni Collette

33.

“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

34.

“Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion.”
Bell Hooks

35.

“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

36.

“When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.”
Elizabeth Gilbert

37.

“In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love.”
Timothy Keller

38.

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.”
Albert Einstein

39.

“Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.”
Nick Hornby

40.

“If relationships will matter most then, shouldn’t they matter most now?”
Max Lucado

Relationship quotes like this are full of wisdom

41.

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
Gustave Flaubert

42.

There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A first glance
A first smile
A first kiss
A first fall.”
Colleen Hoover

43.

“Isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”
Gillian Flynn

44.

“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 Buscaglia

45.

“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other’s sentences.”
Douglas Coupland,

46.

“A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together.”
Deb Caletti

47.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give.”
James Kavanaugh

48.

“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”
Sophie Kinsella

49.

“When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.”
Emily Giffin

50.

“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”
Milan Kundera

51.

“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
William P. Young

52.

“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.”
Osho

53.

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don’t fit together anymore.”
Marilyn Manson

54.

“Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends, that’s just something you are.”
John Green

55.

“Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.”
Stephen Kendrick

56.

“I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
Criss Jami

57.

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”
Emil Ludwig

58.

“It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?”
J.K. Rowling

59.

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.”
Paul Kalanithi

60.

“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

These relationship quotes are straight to the point

61.

“Think of what understanding this great orchestration could mean for relationships. Imagine interacting with others knowing that they too each share this parallel with the snowflake. Like you, they are headed to the same place and no matter what they may appear like to you, they have taken the perfect form for their journey. How strong our relationships would be if we could see and respect that we are all perfectly imperfect for our journey.”
Steve Maraboli

62.

“I’ve often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it’s the one right after the next to the last one.”
Jarod Kintz

63.

“Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You’ll both be stronger as a result.”
Craig M. Mullaney

64.

“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
Wm. Paul Young

65.

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it’s cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”
Mindy Kaling

66.

“I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live – if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
Hayao Miyazaki

67.

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
Paulo Coelho

68.

“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”
Sophie Kinsella

69.

“There’s so much more to relationships than just love.”
Colleen Hoover

70.

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

71.

“Every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimate secrets of your marriage.”
Elizabeth Gilbert

72.

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

73.

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it’s the only kind of relationship worth having.”
Sherry Argov

74.

“He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.”
Hanya Yanagihara

75.

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

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76.

“I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.”
Ellen Schreiber

77.

“To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.”
Santosh Kalwar

78.

“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

79.

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.”
Alan Wilson Watts

80.

“A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.”
Anna Carey

81.

“In the end… we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.”
Lewis Carroll

82.

“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

83.

“The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

84.

“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress”
Nora Roberts

85.

“And I think that’s what our world is desperately in need of – lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.”
Shane Claiborne

86.

“Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.”
Shannon L. Alder

87.

“Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don’t take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner”
Miguel Ruiz

88.

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

89.

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. „
Anthony Robbins

New relationship quotes

90.

“I know you think I’m crazy. Maybe that’s because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.”
Crystal Woods

91.

“Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.”
Steve Maraboli

92.

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
Guy Finley

93.

“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.”
April Mae Monterrosa

94.

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Seneca

95.

“New love can heal lost loves, but it cannot make you forget.”
Jennifer Megan Varnadore

96.

“And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

97.

“The beginning is always today.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

98.

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato

99.

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Mary Pickford

100.

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
J.P. Morgan

101.

“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it’s a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”
Marya Hornbacher

102.

“New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it.”
Eli Easton

Relationship goals quotes

103.

“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me… every day.”
Nicholas Sparks

104.

“A happy marriage is not the goal. It is the inevitable fruit of a Christ-centered relationship.”
Darlene Schact

105.

“All the vital components that make a relationship successful, without any of the emotional messiness to drag it down. It’s about respect, caring, and commitment. Shared goals and compatible priorities. It’s about treating marriage like a partnership instead of some romantic fantasy. It’s about two people liking each other.”
Mira Lyn Kelly

106.

“Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu

107.

“A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.”
Yehuda Berg

108.

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou

109.

“Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you’ll be on track for the same future.”
Angelina Jolie

110.

“Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.”
Steve Maraboli

111.

“We cannot have control over everything that occurs in life, but that is simply not the goal, for we have control only over our relationship that we have with life.”
Forrest Curran

112.

“Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.”
Timothy Keller

113.

“We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a feast together, as we did—and then the good ships rested so quietly in one harbor and one sunshine that it may have looked as if they had reached their goal and as if they had one goal.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

114.

“Satisfied needs produce fulfilled people, and fulfilled people are free to pursue and exercise their full potential as human beings. The primary goal, then, in any relationship should be the meeting of needs.”
Myles Munroe

Sad relationship quotes

115.

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”
Jodi Picoult

116.

“Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we’ve broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can’t stand to watch it, since love’s going to cheat on them too.”
David Levithan

117.

“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it’s a bad one?”
Stephanie Perkins

118.

“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

119.

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

120.

“We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there’s nothing left to love or be loved.”
Tiffany Reisz

121.

“Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there’s nothing you can do to change it.”
Sherry Argov

122.

“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience.”
Jon Krakauer

123.

“I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
Daniel Keye

124.

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing.”
Jandy Nelson

125.

“Need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.”
David Levithan

126.

“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped.”
Charles Bukowski

I hope you enjoyed this collection of relationship quotes. What are your favorite quotes about love and being in a relationship?

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