You want someone who makes you smile, someone you can trust, and someone who brings out the best in you. So in today’s post, I’d like to share the best quotes about options in relationships.
Many of us think love is like catching a cold — it just happens to us and we can’t control it. But that’s not true. First sparks of attraction aren’t our choice, but building a lasting relationship? That’s totally up to us. The more care you put in, the more beautiful it becomes.
In relationships, the choices we make really matter. Should you stay mad after an argument, or be the first to say sorry? Should you make time to listen when your partner’s had a rough day? These everyday decisions are what make love grow stronger or fade away.
And these quotes remind you that not every choice is the same. It’s about choosing someone who respects you, understands you, supports you, and helps you grow.
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Inspirational Quotes About Options in Relationships
1. “Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different.” — Sue Zhao
2. “Choose the option that will give you long term happiness instead of the option that will only give you temporary pleasure.” — Sonya Parker
3. “Look for people in your life that who will help calm the storms in your soul rather than challenge it to a battle. Peace should always be your first priority.in your life.” — Timothy Pina
4. “I’m more than just an option; refuse or be forgotten.” — Drake
5. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” — Jess C. Scott(The intern)
6. “Never make someone your priority when all you are to them is an option.” — Maya Angelou
7. “No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, compromise, and give something up to gain something greater.” —Sarah Dessen
8. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” — Ernest Hemingway
9. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.” — John Green
10. “If she’s loyal to you. She shouldn’t be a choice, a thought, or an option, she should be your priority.” — Unknown
11. “True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” — Mindy Kaling
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12. “In the end, there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” — Robert Brault
13. “We support each other in everything that we do and I love seeing her succeed at the things she loves to do and she loves seeing me succeed at things that I love to do. That’s the way you should be with your partner.” — John Legend
14. “Don’t settle for being an option; become a priority.” — Matt Mitchell
15. “Don’t promise me fair sky above. Don’t promise me kind road below. Just walk beside me, love, any way the wind blows.” — Hadestown
16. “Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.” — Henry Youngman
17. “No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.” — Valerie Jarrett
18. “Remember to honor the hand that reached out for you when you needed it by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.” — Greg Dutilly
19. “Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.” —Deepak Chopra
20. “For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship with myself as a woman.” — Gloria Ng
21. “The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.” — Shannon L. Alder
22. “Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.” — Amelia Earhart
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23. “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito
24. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” — Swedish Proverb
25. “Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.” — Laurence Overmire
26. “Treat me like an option, I’ll make forgetting you my priority. Treat me like a queen and I’ll make you feel like a king.” — Chardonnay Tyson
27. “The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged, or given an ultimatum.” — Mandy Hale
28. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” — George MacDonald
29. “I think it all comes down to relationships – how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I’m involved in.” — Michael W. Smith
30. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” — Dave Meurer
31. “For honest insight into who you are, don’t ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.” — Robert Reed
32. “Your worth to others depends on how you value yourself, don’t be an option to someone, be their priority.” — Blaze Olamiday
33. “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” — Sam Levenson
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34. “A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” — Unknown
35. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’ve been with each other all along.” — Rumi
36. “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
37. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” — Suzanne Collins
38. “You are a priority. Not an option, last resort, or toy. Don’t allow anyone to treat you like anything less.” — Ritu Ghatourey
39. “All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it.” — Unknown
40. “Take love, multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.” — Meet Joe Black
41. “You are a priority. Not an option, last resort, or toy. Don’t allow anyone to treat you like anything less.” — Ritu Ghatourey
42. “I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.” — Nicholas Sparks
43. “A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.” — Rose Gordon
44. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” — Ryan Blair
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45. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — Yoko Ono
46. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” — Donald Miller
47. “I love that you are my person, and I am yours, and that whatever door we come to, we will open together.” — A. R. Asher
48. “Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priority than your relationships. Love is what gives meanings to life.” — Dave Willis
49. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
50. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
51. “Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
52. “Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” — Emily Kimbrough
53. “The worst feeling isn’t being lonely; it’s being forgotten by someone you’d never forget.” — Helen Hywater
54. “Never fall in love with someone that won’t fight for you because when the real battles begin they won’t pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.” — Shannon L. Alder
55. “The best part about getting to know you is anticipating that each day brings new surprises that are all about you.” — Robin Raven
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56. “Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.” — Taylor Lautner
57. “If you don’t love yourself, you won’t be happy with yourself. If you can’t love yourself, you can’t love anyone else. you can’t give the love you don’t have. You can’t make anyone love you without loving yourself first.” — Kerni Soqunie
58. “Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.” — Alan Cohen
59. “No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creations of God. May we affectionately love one another.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
60. “The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.” — Henry Cloud
61. “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” —Marianne Williamson
62. “Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
63. “The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.” — Neale Donald Walsch
64. “Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.” — Caroline Myss
65. “Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you love, kindness and a little tenderness? If not, rethink your relationship.” — Unknown
66. “When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.” — Bell Hooks
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67. “Love isn’t who you can see yourself with. It’s who you can’t see yourself without.” — Jared Leto
68. “I am the creator of my very own self and I intend to treat me like my greatest masterpiece.” — Charlotte Eriksson
69. “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” — Bell Hooks
70. “A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It’s the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would.” — Dawson’s Creek
71. “I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.” — Jordan Belfort
72. “Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.” — Unknown
73. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” — Denis Waitley
74. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao-Tzu
75. “We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.” — Charles R. Swindoll
76. “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
77. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority.It’s necessary.” — Mandy Hale
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78. “Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.” — Liam James
79. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
80. “Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.” — Harry Styles
81. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou
82. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa
83. “When someone tells you they are too busy.It’s not a reflection of their schedule, it’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule.” — Steve Maraboli
84. “Life is a sum of all your choices”. So, what are you doing today?” — Albert Camus
85. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
86. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
87. “It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.” — Lysa TerKeurst
88. “I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” — Oprah Winfrey
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89. “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” — Alexandra Penney
90. “My main priority in any job is when is the soonest i can get back to the three people i love the most in the world.” — Martin Freeman
91. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
92. “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to it. You meet someone and you fall in love, and there’s no turning back.” — Selena Gomez
93. “I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.” — William C. Hannan
94. “I have chosen you, in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” — Kiersten White
95. “Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart’s freedom.” — Pietro Metastasio
96. “You and me together, through the days and nights. I don’t worry ’cause everything’s gonna be alright.” — Alicia Keys
97. “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” — Orhan Pamuk
98. “I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.” — J.M. Storm
99. “The love you send into the world, you will find, is the love that returns to you.” — Avina Celeste
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100. “The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million changes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
101. “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil
102. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen
103. “If you can’t stop thinking about it, it’s a good thing. It means you’re alive.” — Maxime Lagacé
104. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
105. “Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone.” — Tyler Knott Gregson
106. “Stop feeding connections that don’t feed you.Stop spending so much time filling others, while you starve of love. You are deserving too.” — Billy Chapata
107. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult
108. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andrew Breton
109. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
110. “If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” — John Steinbeck
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