Relationship Advice Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old relationship advice quotes, relationship advice sayings, and relationship advice proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Only in a relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. Krishnamurti
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. Pierre Tailhard de Chardin
A relationship is placing one's heart and soul in the hands of another while taking charge of another in one's soul and heart. Khalil Gibran
Go behind the apparent circumstances of the situation and locate the love in yourself and in all others involved in the situation. Mother Teresa
If a relationship is based on 'what am I getting?' all is lost. Ossie B. Davies
No relationship can provide everything needed for the complete experience of being yourself. David Viscott
The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be. No one owns you, no matter what's your relationship. Viscott
If a relationship is ever going to work...we must surrender to each other...give up possession of the power over each other. Stewart Emery
Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another. Lerner
Our relationships are our mirrors; they reflect where we are in consciousness. And if we are able to face the truth about ourselves, our relationships offer the lessons that lead to our greatest transformation. Susan L.Taylor
The people we are in a relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. Shakti Gawain
Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessive, and the relationship slips away and is lost. Kaleel Jamison
There is so much you cannot understand in a human relationship; often you have to endure what seems to be an injustice. But those who can take the long view can always tell you that all crooked places will be made straight and all injustice will be righted. White Eagle
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness. Alan Cohen
The point of the relationship is the added power that life gets in working with it as a channel. A good relationship gives life more power. If two people are strong together, life has a more powerful channel than it was with two single people. Charlotte Joko Beck
Mutual loving confrontation is a significant part of al successful and meaningful human relationships. Without it the relationship is either unsuccessful or shallow. M. Scott Peck