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May you find great value in these Relation quotes and sayings.
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Related topics: Values
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
- Abraham Lincoln
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem,
of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow
Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship,
of affection, of friendly intercourse,
and I am not made of stone or iron,
so I cannot miss these things without feeling,
as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need.
I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
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
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
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