Relationship Growth Quotes

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

I've really actually grown with my girlfriends and the people that they've introduced me to and the way that I've been welcomed in by their families. I'm a very, very lucky man.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

I feel like we go through different stages of love. When you get a little bit older, love starts to feel different, but you see that love has always been there.

For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out.

So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.

My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better. He can make an excellent omelette.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.