10 Inspiring Quotes for Healthy Relationships
We’ve collected a few quotes or relationship tips from experts that we think people might find inspirational and that give you and your partner perspective on your relationship and/or your marriage:
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preperation.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Mature love is the capacity to find enjoyment in the enjoyment of the other person’s enjoyment. It isn’t enough to enjoy your wife’s cooking. You ought to enjoy the pleasure she has in cooking.
Milton Erickson, MD. (One of history’s greatest psychotherapists)
We cannot love others as others unless we possess sufficient self-love.
Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses
Marriage is a thing you’ve got to give your whole mind to.
Henrick Ibsen, The League of Youth
If you want to be certain your parter will act like a bitch, accuse her of being one.
William O’Hanlon, MSW at a workshop
You don’t just marry your wife or husband. You also marry her or his pain-body – and your spouse married yours.
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
The wonderful thing is we really love our neighbor as we love ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
Other people…are part of the wonder that life is. They are not here to do something for us. Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart
I usually feel there is too much effort on the part of one spouse to convert the other spouse.
Milton Erickson, MD
A wonderful living side by side can grow up if close partners can succeed in loving the distance between them, which makes it possible to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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