Top 100 Quotes About Healthy Relationships
#1. Healthy relationships are founded on who the relationship partner actually is, not on who they could become. The
Debra Fileta
#2. I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.
Jason Najum
#3. If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.
Stuart Briscoe
#4. To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
James Hunter
#5. Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
Florence Welch
#6. I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.
Hill Harper
#7. The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#8. The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Bruce D. Perry
#9. Healthy relationships require transformed hearts, not just transformed brains.
Steve Corbett
#10. Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.
Sharon Salzberg
#11. Conflicts in relationships are as natural as breathing. While conflicts lead to healthy relationships, they can throttle us if they are not addressed at the appropriate time.
Balroop Singh
#12. I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
Carson Daly
#13. 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
#14. I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#15. I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships.
April Rose
#16. Don't just be a taker; healthy relationships require balance. Give with your words and be extra generous with your deeds.
Steve Maraboli
#17. I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.
Rose McIver
#18. I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.
Donald Miller
#19. There was an article in the New York Times that said that young men can't maintain healthy relationships because they're so influenced by pornography and what they see on the screen. It's something to be talked about
Carey Mulligan
#20. Young men are eager to "hook up" with women. And many say they have very good female friends. But some of the emotions circulating among guys make it difficult to form and sustain healthy relationships.
Michael Kimmel
#21. I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.
Donald Miller
#22. I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.
George Lopez
#23. Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.
Myles Munroe
#24. She preferred to nurture healthy relationships with a few women, like Shelby, a genuinely loyal friend, and weed out weak and petty imposters who passed through her life.
Sarah Jo Smith
#25. Money gives you options,
Hard work gives you success,
Healthy relationships give you a long life,
But faith gives you everything!
Farshad Asl
#26. It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?
Benjamin Stone
#27. The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.
Marci Shimoff
#28. Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.
Asa Don Brown
#29. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Nathaniel Branden
#30. You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#31. Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#32. We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.
Joanna Garcia
#33. Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.
Nizar Qabbani
#34. Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
Rosamund Hodge
#35. If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?
Ramani Durvasula
#36. I totally support women working on their relationships, their careers, or whatever they need to do to be healthy moms, but it's also important to realize you may not have as much time as you think.
Constance Marie
#37. A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
Anthony Kiedis
#38. The most productive, healthy and satisfying relationships are based, not on a quid pro quo but an ebb and flow of mutual support over time. Don't just be a giver. Be an extremely helpful giver who demonstrates an awareness of what that person most needs.
Kare Anderson
#39. Your thoughts and intentions have a mirroring power, make sure they are always kind and loving.
Linda Alfiori
#40. After years of breaking Rules and settling for random hookups, she finally meets a cute guy and after one kiss she has an aha! moment. She realizes that she does want a healthy loving relationship, not just a lot of texting and sex.
Ellen Fein
#41. Talking openly and honestly about relationships is a key to helping improve relationships and maintaining healthy ones.
Rodney A. Winters
#42. A healthy relationship is one in which love enriches you; not imprisons you.
Steve Maraboli
#43. Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
Michelle Bachelet
#44. Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
Daniel Goldstein
#45. To be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy.
Bronnie Ware
#46. In a healthy relationship, there can't be one until there's two!
Evinda Lepins
#48. Love yourself ... enough to take the actions required for your happiness ... enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past ... enough to set a high standard for relationships ... enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner ... enough to forgive yourself ... enough to move on.
Steve Maraboli
#49. Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they've got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one.
Merce Cardus
#50. People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Zig Ziglar
#51. It took me a long time to learn the difference between working on a healthy relationship and wasting my time on a long goodbye. Never again!
Steve Maraboli
#52. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
David W. Earle
#53. Sometimes, we have bad on the inside and good on the outside. In these instances, we need to be able to open up our boundaries to let the good in and the bad out. In other words, our fences need gates in them.
Henry Cloud
#54. The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#55. If we wish to have a beautiful, peaceful and safe home, we need healthy expanding roots that go deep into the ground. These roots are our Routine, our Stability, our Structure.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#56. Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.
Sebastian Pole
#57. Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
John Lewis Lund
#58. Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
Henri Nouwen
#60. The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can't remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member.
Joe Jordan
#61. I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
Caroline Knapp
#62. I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy.
Tom Hardy
#63. I was hot and horny as hell.
Which was typical of me. I'm twenty-five, and I'm healthy, and a healthy girl is always thinking about sex.
Fiona Thrust
#64. I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.
Jane Green
#65. Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.
Chris Colfer
#66. I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.
Maureen Brady
#67. I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.
Nick Denton
#68. Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.
Bruce D. Perry
#69. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.
Richie Norton
#70. Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.
Sonia Choquette
#71. A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships.
Shannon Ethridge
#72. This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.
Henry Cloud
#73. Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.
Sharon Salzberg
#74. It isn't healthy, how wrapped up they are in each other. Relationships like that burn bright, but when they burn out, they leave everyone blistered.
Rachel Vincent
#75. Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut
#76. No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.
Cheryl Strayed
#77. We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
Laura Schroff
#78. The only healthy marriages that survive are the ones where two people became best friends and learned how to rescue one another, over and over again.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#80. Relationships with anyone are at their best when you are at your best.
Maria Dorfner
#81. When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.
Frank Natale
#82. Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy.
Wm. Paul Young
#83. I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
Rachel Bloom
#84. A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity ... I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Dinkar Kalotra
#85. At the core of healthy team relationships is trust and respect.
Jim Highsmith
#86. Healthy people will marry healthy people because you will always end up with the person whom you believe you deserve.
Debra Fileta
#87. When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.
Jani Ortlund
#88. We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.
Sharon Salzberg
#89. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Lewis Herman
#90. I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way.
R. YS Perez
#91. I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
Anjelica Huston
#92. It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal
Saji Ijiyemi
#93. A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on ... unless of course you prefer sand.
K.E. Garvey
#94. I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other's well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
Bell Hooks
#95. I think in any relationship, even in the healthiest of relationships, we are all parents to each other at times. I think that's a normal, healthy sort of relationship. I think there are times when we're each a mother and a father when we need to be.
Christopher Stanley
#96. Most people do not read books on relationships if they feel their relationships are healthy, happy, or easy.
Van Moody
#97. Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.
Terrence Real
#98. How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
Gary Smalley
#99. You cannot decide how many children your parents will give birth to, but you can identify the sibling(s) (if any) with whom you can have a healthy relationship.
Widad Akreyi
#100. The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.
Vironika Tugaleva
