Tenuous Quotes

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

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

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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 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

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

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

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

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

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)

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

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

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

You are my Family
- Karen Drucker

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

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