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May you find great value in the wisdom of these Relationship quotes and sayings.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
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
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
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
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
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
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
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
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
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
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
I have also seen children successfully
surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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