There is something about February and Valentine’s Week that makes everything red and beautiful. Well, in my mind certainly. As a teenager and when in college, this week and day used to be so full of excitement. It still is now but the meaning and means have changed, matured probably with time. But I still love to look up real-life relationship quotes or even quotes about love this time of the year. A nerdy and matured way of getting excited on Valentine’s Day, I suppose.
Though I do believe that gestures of love should be made all year round, I also love the idea of a day and a week celebrating that. The festive spirit just warms my heart. Valentine’s Day, I feel is a celebration of relationships and what could possibly be wrong about that?
Relationships, meaningful ones, make life so much easier to lead but it takes a lot of time, effort and pouring in your authentic self into it to build and sustain one. Many say that the best part of a relationship is the onset which I agree is a wonderful and exciting time. But when you have been in one for years and are so comfortable with each other, that has a charm unlike any other. The stability, the security and the feeling of understanding without having to speak is truly a blessing. Of course, there must be some arguments too. That has a charm of its own.
Today on Valentine’s Day, I thought I would talk about relationships and love with you through quotes. A post on love and relationship quotes. Honestly, it has been a long time since I did a post on quotes. I think every topic has been far too serious on the blog for some time now, either on parenting or something on working women. Truth be told, from my initial days of blogging, I have had a particular affinity towards such posts and why not? Who doesn’t like a list of motivating and meaningful quotes?
So, without further ado, let’s leave you with some beautiful quotes. Since this is also the 14th year of myself and S as a couple, I think I have a little bit of what it takes to identify some gems, maybe write some myself. Well, we’ll see, won’t we?
Some real-life relationship quotes
“A strong relationship is a perfect relationship. But a perfect relationship is not always a strong relationship.” – Yours Truly
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”― Ernest Hemingway
“A perfect relationship away from the glare of social media is more precious than a perfect relationship on it.” – Yours Truly
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”― Pablo Neruda
“Being in a true relationship lets you speak your truth. If not, it’s probably just compromise.” – Yours Truly
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”― Lao Tzu
“When you know that marriage is more important than the wedding, your relationship is on the right path.” – Yours Truly
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”― Nicholas Sparks
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”― Jodi Picoult
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”― Robert Fulghum
“Making time for each other after years is a sign that the spark is still alive.” – Yours Truly
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”― Anais Nin
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”― Paulo Coelho
“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”― Cornel West
“You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do.”― Jodi Picoult
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”― Stephen R. Covey
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.”― Alain de Botton
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”― Edith Hamilton
“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”― Gillian Flynn
“Give importance to the self before giving your all to the relationship. It will ensure you are in a happy relationship.” – Yours truly
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”― Sarah Dessen
“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.”― Diane Von Furstenberg
“The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”― Alessandra Torre
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”― Ursula K. Le Guin
“The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.”― Scott Adams
Well, those were some profound thoughts on love, relationships and self.
Tell me, which spoke to you the most? And yes, Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours.
