Healthy relationships are essential to our life satisfaction. But they’re not always easy and sometimes we need a reminder for how to make them work. Here are 14 truly inspiring relationship quotes that can be applied to all relationships.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. – David Rockefeller

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. – Hugh Mackay

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. – Pietro Aretino

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.- O. A. Battista

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. – Donald Miller

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.- Ernest Hemingway

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. – Paramahansa Yogananda

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. – Chanakya

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people. – Dale Carnegie

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – William James

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

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