I am looking for a quote on 'why for a relationship to grow it must not be static'

[Joel Davis]

I am looking for a quote on 'why for a relationship to grow it must not be static'

[woofgang]

Joel, I can't find the exact quote, but there's a bit in The Prophret by Khalil Gibran about "spaces in your togetherness" that might be helpful

[Quizmonster]

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but in his poem 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', John Donne used the metaphor of two lovers' souls being like the two arms of a pair of compasses - the instrument you used to draw circles in maths classes. He wrote:

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed root, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.

Clearly, he means that - even when they seem to move apart and no matter how far apart - lovers are still 'conjoined'. Remaining 'static', as you put it, is not essential for that bond to remain. (The quote is even a bit naughty, of course, as well!)