We all want it: true love. Yet it can feel so elusive that some of us may begin to believe that it doesn’t exist. With dating websites popping up all over the place, why is it so hard for us to find the person of our dreams?
Some people may think that they have set the bar too high and are expecting someone that is too perfect they could be keeping good people away. While others tend to settle for almost anyone that their relationships ends up in shambles and become closed off to future potential partners.
Whatever situations you may be in, here are some inspirational quotes about love and relationships that will motivate you not to give up hope:
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. – Donald Miller
I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart. – Alice Walker
There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other, and start fighting for each other. – Dave Willis
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. – Leo F. Buscaglia
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung
You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships are not great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work. – Unknown
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad. – Nick Cannon
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. — Anthony Robbins
When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. – John Gray
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen
The best part about getting to know you is anticipating that each day brings new surprises that are all about you. – Robin Raven
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever. – Love & Other Drugs