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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell
"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together."
- Robert C. Dodds
"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."
- Mike Murdock
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
- James C. Dobson
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
- William Shakespeare
"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."
- Taylor Swift
"Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others."
- Kahlil Gibran
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"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
- Francesco Guicciardini
"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."
- Mike Murdock
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
- James C. Dobson
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
- William Shakespeare
"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."
- Taylor Swift
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
- John Churton Collins
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of changing others."
- Benjamin Franklin
"If you give your son [or daughter] only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
- Bruce Barton
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
- Dave Meurer
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living."
- Amanda Bradley
"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other".
- Roger Bannister
"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
- Doug Floyd
"Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other."
- Joe Moore
"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
- Albert Ellis
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”
- Gay Hendricks
“Love is saying ‘I feel differently’, instead of ‘you're wrong’.”
- Anonymous
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
- Charles Dickens
“Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.”
- Josh McDowell
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
- Anais Nin
“The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.”
- Robert C. Dodds
“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.”
- Irwin Federman
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Gustav Jung
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.”
- Joseph Addison
“Kind words are the music of the world”.
- F. W. Faber
“Friends are the sunshine of life.”
- John Hay
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
- Ruth Bell Graham
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.”
- Og Mandino
“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.”
- Harriet Lerner
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
- Shinichi Suzuki
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
- Lao Tzu
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
- Francesco Guicciardini
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
- Bertrand Russell
“Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.”
- Deepak Chopra
“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
- Mae West
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.”
- Lois L. Kaufman
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.”
- Keanu Reeves
“In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.”
- Robert Brault
“End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, ‘I love you’. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.”
- Mark Victor Hansen
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
- Rosa Franken
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
- Robert Heinlein
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- George Herbert
“It’s not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
- Epicurus
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
- Brandi Snyder
“Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.”
- Author Unknown
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him [or her] by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
- Edward W. Howe
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.”
- Lois L. Kaufman
“I think a soulmate is... a person who makes you be the most you, you can possibly be. Maybe your soulmate is... the person who forces your soul to grow the most. Not all growth feels good.”
- Rabbi Ari
“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
- Tony Robbins
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
“Friendship … it’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t learned anything.”
- Muhammed Ali
“Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
- Epicurus
“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.”
- Author Unknown
“All kids need a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”
- Magic Johnson
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“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
- Eustace Budgell
“When you're in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
- Keith Sweat
“The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.”
- Brian Tracy
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
- Deepak Chopra
“To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.”
- Joel Osteen
“To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of others.”
- Gottfried Wilhelm Von Liebniz
“A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.”
- Brian Tracy
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
- Steven Covey
“Know thyself.”
- Socrates
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”
- Joseph Joubert
“Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.”
- Brian Tracy
“The best thing in life is finding someone who knows all your mistakes and weaknesses and still thinks you’re completely amazing.”
- Anonymous
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
- Sam Keen
“We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.”
- John Gray
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“No road is long with good company.”
- Turkish Proverb
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
- Titus Muccius Plautus
“When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
- Keith Sweat
“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
- John Wooden
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
- Mark Twain
“Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there”
- Tennessee Williams
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows.”
- Ben Stein
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
- Anthony Robbins
“It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.”
- Ruthman
“Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.”
- Tony Robbins
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
- Joseph Campbell
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
- Max Steingart
“Before we can have a successful relationship with anyone, we first need a perfect personal relationship.”
- Russ Von Hoelscher
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
- Goethe
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
- Dr. Seuss
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
- William Arthur Ward
“In relationships, the little things are the big things.”
- Steven R. Covey
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”
- Sally Koch
“Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.”
- Lee Wilkinson
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
- Anatole France
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
- Swedish Proverb
“The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”
- Brian Tracy
“To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.”
- Chinese Proverb
“The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.”
- Walt Whitman
“Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.”
- Joann Thomas
“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
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“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
- Burton Hillis
“Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."
- Cindy Lew
“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."
- Stephen Covey
“Babies are such a nice way to start people."
- Don Herold
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
- Neil Postman
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
- Baltasar Gracian
"The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship."
- Brian Tracy
"Before you try to change others, remember how hard it is to change yourself."
- Bill Bluestein
“The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
- Anthony Robbins
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”
- Lee Iacocca
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
- Arnold Glasow
“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.”
- Erma Bombeck
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
- Proverb, Unknown Author
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
- Bruce Barton
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
- George Eliot
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“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
- Anthony Robbins
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
- Neil Postman
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.”
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” - Aristotle
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Robert Heinlein
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
- Dale Carnegie
“Life is relationships; the rest is just details.”
- Gary Smalley
“Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.”
- Wayne Dyer
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
- Michael Jackson
“Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.”
- Goethe
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
- Anne Geddes
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
“The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.”
- Brian Tracy
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss
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“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
- Anthony Robbins
“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.”
- Stephen R. Covey
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
“Women marry men thinking they will change. They never do. Men marry women thinking they won’t change. They always do.”
- Author Unknown
“Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.”
- Diane Sollee
“Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.”
- Author Unknown
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
- Harville Hendrix
“When you put faith, hope and love together you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
- Zig Ziglar
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
- Theodore Hesburgh
“Research has shown a child who sees his mother mistreated is more damaged than if the child himself is abused.”
- Steven Stosny
“The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can't possibly doubt that you love them.”
- Diane Sollee
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”
- Douglas Pagels
“Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.”
- The Dalai Lama
“Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.”
- Jim Rohn
“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
- The Dalai Lama
“Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
- Robert Fulghum
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
- Mignon McLaughlin
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.”
- Author Unknown
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.”
- Emily Kimbrough
“No road is long with good company.”
- Turkish Proverb
“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
- Doménico Cieri Estrada
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
- Marcel Proust
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ”
- Swedish Proverb
“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
- Leo Buscaglia
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
- Henry Winkler
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."
- Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Robert Heinlein
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
- Michael Leunig
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
- Arnold Glasgow
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two people to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
- Eustace Budgell
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
“Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.”
- Steven H. Coogler
"To move the world, we must first move ourselves."
- Socrates
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
- Woodrow Wilson
"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."
- Emily Kimbrough
"No road is long with good company."
- Turkish Proverb
"Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you."
- Author Unknown
“My grandmother passed away on Christmas day 2002. She was 78 years old and had multiple health problems. A few days after her funeral, I was at her home with my grandfather. We were looking at a wall of pictures they have in the den. He picked up a picture of him and his bride on their wedding day. They were both young, slim, beautiful, happy people. He looked at that picture and then he looked at me and said, ‘This is how I saw her every day of my life.’ At that moment, I clearly understood what love is.”
- Veronica Panerella
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"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
- Mother Theresa
"If we are to reach real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children."
- Gandhi
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"
- Sam Keen
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
- Dr. Seuss
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating, friendship is never anything but sharing." - Elie Wiesel
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
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