Relationships 101 Quotes

“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two competing emotions—love and hate.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A relationship that is truly genuine does not keep changing its colors. Real gold never rusts. If a relationship is really solid and golden, it will be unbreakable. Not even Time can destroy its shine.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes, a person isn’t looking to increase their lifestyle, status or ego when they fall in love. Sometimes, they just want that special someone that is just like them. The one person that truly understands how they suffer because they have gone through it too. They want to wake up beside someone that knows their trials intimately. They want a teammate that doesn’t say they get it, but someone who knows it, lived it and survived it. They have been looking for that person their entire life because they feel alone and misunderstood. They are tired of people telling them not to care about other people, when that is not who God designed them to be. The depth of their soul can’t be reached by their partner standing at the top looking down. They want to come home to their “own kind”--the person that has run the same dark corridors they have traveled in their mind. They want to build a life with someone that would never break their heart, push them away or give up on them. They don’t want the person that has to win. They want the rescuer that has been to the fearful boundaries of their heart, but knows the way back to life. When they meet this person they will never forget them because they will come into their life with all the fire they possess and never leave their soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You will never be able to see clearly when people around you distort your view of truth with their own clouded version. You will begin to read into everything incorrectly and find yourself lost in a delusional story stitched together from the crumbs of over analyzed words once spoken, misunderstandings or speculation. Life should not be wasted by collecting clues or piecing together a puzzle about how someone feels. Love is straightforward and it is clearly seen on the cloudiest days of your life. If someone loves you it will be obvious. They won't let you go, until you ask them to.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A fulfilling long-term relationship is not accomplished by just finding the one. It is rather a co-operation between two passionate and highly motivated partners working together, figuring out every single situation holding hands. If there is trust at the root of the relationship, if the partners make an effort to keep it interesting, if difficulties are handled tactfully and if you can appreciate every single deed of your partner no matter how insignificant it is, the flames of love would never burn out and your love can truly live happily ever after.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Art of Neuroscience in Everything

“Michel en a marre d'être seul. Alors il s'est amputé d'une partie de son cerveau, histoire de ne pas voir la fille comme elle était: une emmerdeuse de premier ordre.”
― Virginie Despentes, Bye Bye Blondie

“Life is a constant battle of fighting your own fears and not absorbing others. Don’t fill the empty spaces of your heart with the fears of others in your life. It is the highly anxious person that will tell you that certain people and experiences need to be labeled and kept either close or at a distance. They go to great lengths to categorize things, in order to feel balance in their life because they are out of balance. Life to them is about control and making you believe that their perfect world is normal when there is nothing normal about it. Highly anxious people live through manipulating their world into what is easy and palatable to them and they can easily pull you into an unrealistic view of the world around them. You constantly have to reassess what is reasonable and what is over exaggerated because fear drives their every action.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Only way to grow together as a couple, is to nourish each other's individual growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“If it is the will of love,
I'll convert a thousand religions.
If it is the will of love,
I'll disown a thousand ancestors.

If it is the will of love,
I'll change a thousand nationalities.
You just command, my sweet,
Love's wish is life's theology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Focus on attachment, not arousal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“If a person disregards your feelings, ignores your needs and treats you in a damaging way, distance yourself.”
― Dr. Amaya Sharma

“You wanna know why it’s not changing with them? What you condone, by default, you empower.”
― Zara Hairston

“Instead of saying there has to me more to the story, expecting me to give you something that you think you already know, why don't you just ask the question. If there is more to the story, there has to be another question, right?”
― Niedria Kenny

“Chance encounters can bring two people together, but it is ultimately up to those individuals to maintain a relationship and make it work.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“Respect, when rooted in genuine admiration and understanding, becomes a bridge that connects individuals, fostering empathy, acceptance, and a deep appreciation for the inherent worth of every person.”
― Sanjeev Himachali, Beginners Guide To Job Search

“...we have feelings for each other that we didn't want to admit. We tried so hard to be just fuck buddies we completely ignored our hearts because, truth be told, Isabella Rey, I wasn't sleeping with anyone else but you. I didn't even talk to other girls, I didn't take numbers, I ignored every female that wasn't you." He pulls out his wallet and opening it. "I got your photo in my wallet, both pictures, so yeah, I want you to be my girl.”
― Marilyn Shae, Crashing In

“When there is unstability, bonds and relations break”
― Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy

“Love a little, a lot. Love a lot, a little.”
― Jill Telford

“Keeping score in any relationship is a losing game.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose