Quotes

Here’s a few of our favourite quotes about the power, joy, fun and confusion of relationship, love and partnership. We regularly add new ones so come back often or bookmark this page for future reference.

“What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things – the Bond…Every conflict that occurs – whether between husband and wife, social or racial groups – is resolved only when we can fully see and embrace the space – the Bond – between us.”
-Lynne McTaggart, excerpt from The Bond. McTaggart is the bestselling author of The Intention Experiment.

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” ~Swedish Proverb

“Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

“Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” ~Henry Winkler

“I like her because she smiles at me and means it.” ~Anonymous

“Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly” ~Thomas Haliburton

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’” ~A.A. Milne

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?” ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~Oprah Winfrey

“There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.” ~Robert Brault

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” ~Mary Tyler Moore

“Sometimes two people need to step apart
and make a space between
that each might see the other anew,
in a glance across a room
or silhouetted against the moon.”
~Robert Brault

“Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.” ~Anonymous

“I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.” ~Shirley Bassey

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
~Vince Lombardi

“We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~Aristotle