In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising? ...
by Sarah Jessica Parker

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker

Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Marriage

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)

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

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

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

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)

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

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

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- 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

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead

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

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

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

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie