Quotes About Real Love Relationships

#1. Pina colada kisses and cocaine nips
never lie, swear to me that this feeling is real.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#2. Are you real?" Stupid. Of course he's real.
"Yes, Julie. I'm not the mystical man from your dreams.

Caroline George

#3. I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

Shannon A. Thompson

#4. So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality.

Sharon Salzberg

#5. How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being - someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry?

Lucille Anderson

#13. The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

John Green

#15. The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

Dean Spade

#16. Then when Matt had come along it hadn't been fireworks, passion and fights and drama. It had been low- key, sweet, lovely. But that didn't meant it wasn't the real thing. It never had done. Just because it wasn't suprising hadn't meant it wasn't right.

Jenny Colgan

#17. A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. Letting go of the belief that we're powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. (She) got herself a real boyfriend and she was just crazy about him. Not jack rabbit naked and coyote howling crazy, but sugar 'n' butter, soft 'n' sweet crazy.

Jackson Burnett

#20. Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!

Arthur Miller

#21. Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Amy Sedaris

#23. I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

Ali Larter

#24. Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#25. Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. You could spend a lifetime waiting for someone to love the real you but if you don't know who you really are, you are wasting your time.

Keysha Jade

#27. Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Sharon Salzberg

#28. Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don't sense it.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.

Sharon Salzberg

#30. One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love ...

Alain De Botton

#31. What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

Lindsey Stirling

#32. Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it's also more grounded & sustainable.

Sharon Salzberg

#33. Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.

Sharon Salzberg

#34. Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

David Nicholls

#35. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#37. It's real easy. All you have to do is love him.

Marie Marquardt

#38. Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.

Sharon Salzberg

#39. Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. I dream of a love in which two people share a passion to search together for some higher truth. Perhaps I should not call it love. Perhaps it's real name is friendship.

Irvin D. Yalom

#41. I read somewhere that the real reason most people can't get
over an ex is that they don't want to. Deep down they hold on to
the hope that they'll get back together, and that hope prevents
them from moving on.

Serena Grey

#42. You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

Sharon Salzberg

#43. Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.

Ellen J. Barrier

#44. You may be able
to fly to heaven with my love.
But for real, my love is only
a cheap wine.
Seriously,
Only God's love is the precious wine.
And She even
gives it to everyone.
For free!

Subhan Zein

#45. Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.

Sharon Salzberg

#46. Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.

Sharon Salzberg

#47. The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy

Sharon Salzberg

#48. We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

Sharon Salzberg

#49. True love doesn't exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all.

Ashmita Acharya

#50. I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

Scott Bakula

#51. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.

David W. Earle

#52. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#53. 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

#54. Do you love her?"
"Yeah."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Because relationships end."
"What?"
"If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship is real. It lasts, and it's safe."
"Loving someone, being loved ... it's worth the pain of losing them.

Rachel Harris

#55. Love without sacrifice is like theft

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#56. I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#57. Real love is a decision concerning the way we behave in our relationships with other people.

Joyce Meyer

#58. One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.

Sharon Salzberg

#59. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

Howard Mittelmark

#60. Life is real, not ideal.

Heather Muzik

#61. I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up.

Kirsten Smith

#62. Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

Cyc Jouzy

#63. Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

Haruki Murakami

#64. 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

#65. There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#66. A real relationship doesn't properly begin until the NRE burns away. That's when you have to start dealing with this person as an all-around human being, replete with irritating little habits. When disillusion sets in, love can begin.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#67. I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#68. We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

Martina Boone

#69. The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

Larry Sanders

#70. The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

Sharon Salzberg

#71. The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.

Sharon Salzberg

#72. Love alone is worthless. It cannot sustain a relationship ... any relationship

Alice Walsh

#73. Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.

David Leavitt

#74. No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.

Sharon Salzberg

#75. Some say it should come easy if it's real love but that's just not true. Love is never easy - love hurts sometimes. It causes insecurities and jealousies. Relationships take work - love takes work. And happiness requires forgiving others. I forgive you.

A.D. Justice

#76. Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.

Sharon Salzberg

#77. ...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

#78. We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.

Sharon Salzberg

#79. When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.

Sharon Salzberg

#80. When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance - for ourselves, as well as others - over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we've been hurt to the core. But that doesn't mean we ever forget.

Sharon Salzberg

#81. I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.

Auliq Ice

#82. I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

Lee Pace

#83. What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.

Matteson Perry

#84. Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.

Sharon Salzberg

#85. When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

Sharon Salzberg

#86. When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

M. Scott Peck

#87. 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

#88. I'll date you, love ... not you and your iPad. I can't feel plastic palm play; I'm live like Memorex.

T.F. Hodge