24 Advice For Couples Who Want To Make Up After A Fight

“Stop trying to win an argument and start trying to understand each other.”

— Gary Chapman, amazon.com

“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com

“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”

— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com

“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

— Stephen Kendrick, amazon.com

“Don’t become who hurt you.”

— Julia Perluzzo, desireemmondesir.com

“Compassion is the key to this, all of this. If we could all stop and breathe and find more room for compassion, for forgiveness, for proud and honest love for everyone around us, my goodness what a tidal wave of change would spill across the planet.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com

“Learn to FORGIVE. Learn to FORGET.”

— Saisrikanth Rathakrishnan, quora.com

“A happy marriage is about three things: memories of togetherness, forgiveness of mistakes and a promise to never give up on each other.”

— Surabhi Surendra, womanatics.com

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else — you are the one who gets burned.”

— Commonly Attributed To Buddha, fakebuddhaquotes.com

“The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see?”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re ang…”

— Christopher Pike, amazon.com

“If two people can fully trust one another and are good at communicating with each other, jealousy will never win. NEVER!”

— Robert Rain, amazon.com

“The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn't the real problem. The real problem is that we don't trust.”

— L.J Vanier, amazon.com

“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”

— Cody Gohl, thoughtcatalog.com

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's grea…”

— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

— A.A. Milne, amazon.com

“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”

— Morgan Matson, amazon.com

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Embrace a philosophy of pessimism. Every human will disappoint you, and you'll do the same to them.”

— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com

“Love is about realistically seeing who the other person is, flaws and all, and appreciating the entire picture. It doesn’t make demands or need things to be a certain way, it grows and flows and creates an environment where both people bring out the best in one another.”

— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“There's nothing sweeter than a long kiss before asking for something.”

— Kylie M., yourtango.com

“Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com