Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
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Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
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
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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 final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
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)
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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