Quotes About Growing Relationships

#1. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#2. ...it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.

Sherri Rifkin

#3. Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

Douglas McGregor

#4. Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

Josh Duhamel

#5. Sometimes you're left with only 1 choice: Take what's yours and run for you life.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#6. Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up.

Crystal Woods

#7. ... when your palm laced like water
on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding
each contour by oath, we both knew
that in growing up, some signs had to be
sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery,
remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.

Jerrold Yam

#8. We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.

Catherine Lacey

#9. Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.

Sebastian Faulks

#10. Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

Cathie Pelletier

#11. If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

Nick Hornby

#12. 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 Buscaglia

#13. The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people
and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

Earl B. Russell

#15. ...being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum - it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come.

Lev Grossman

#16. This feeling of lessening disturbance, coming from within myself, unexpected, was profoundly disturbing. As I sat still, growing less and less alarmed by the situation, I knew that I had to move fast, as fast and as far as I could within this small, cramped house.

Alexandra Kleeman

#17. Don't get stuck where you are, keep growing. It's a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.

Joel Osteen

#18. I also have intense relationships with furniture ... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Barbra Streisand

#19. Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Brian L. Weiss

#20. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Bethany Brookbank

#21. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

J.S.B. Morse

#22. If we are not growing together, then we should not stay together.

Nyki Edwinna

#23. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Liz Thebart

#24. There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Graham Greene

#25. When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

Padmasree Warrior

#26. All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!

Jenny Colgan

#27. But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

Neesha Meminger

#28. Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you.

Bryant McGill

#29. I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

Five For Fighting

#30. People block abundance of love by closing their hearts, growing weeds, like fears and rejection, around their hearts. That's why they are stuck in relationships or become withdrawn.

Hina Hashmi

#31. Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

Dylan O'Brien

#32. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.

Sonja Yoerg

#34. Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

Tristan Prettyman

#35. Growing healthy relationships is learning how to communicate, how to do conflict well, how to apologize and forgive, and how to own up to your mistakes. It's establishing healthy boundaries and knowing when to say no.

Lisa Anderson