An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with whom we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two whole. Make your relationship healthy with these quotes.

• Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
• Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.  ~Dinah Shore
• Lust is easy.  Love is hard.  Like is most important.  ~Carl Reiner
• Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. – Wayne Dyer
• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement…all success… all achievement in real life grows. – Ben Stein
• When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. – Deepak Chopra
• The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
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• People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
• They are all perverse, and one’s occasional desire for their company is the most perverse of all.
• “It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” -Anthony Storr
• “Guys are like dogs. They keep comin’ back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they’re gone.” -Lenny Bruce
• Distance is a dagger in the heart of two lovers.
• Falling in love is easy, staying in love requires work.
• When I look in your eyes I see the love we have for each other.