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May you find great value in these quotes by Mike Murdock.
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
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