inspiring quotes
TRANSCRIPT
1.
“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
2. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself
— to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because
of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a
relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous
heart.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
3. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
4. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
5. “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
6. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for
who they are.”
– Donald Miller
7. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
8. “No road is long with good company.”
— Turkish Proverb
9. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel.”
— Carl W. Buechner
10.“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men
11. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
— Swedish Proverb
12. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships
everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging
adversity.”
— Epicurus
13. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”
— Albert Schweitzer
14. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak
only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you
are never alone.”
— Audrey Hepburn
15. “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
16. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
17. “As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience
another person, you can only experience them in your mind.
Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in
your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships
are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your
experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about
your lovers come from your thoughts.
For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive.
However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not
determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to
relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them,
you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”
— Wayne Dyer
18. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
— Henry Winkler
19. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our
silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson
20. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about
yourself.”
— Andre Breton
21. “Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely,
with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.
The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand
trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most
will be spilled.
A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the
other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too
possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.”
— Kaleel Jamison
22. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the
open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
23. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human
beings.”
— Miles Franklin
24. “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
25. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the
reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
— Thomas Merton
26. “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her
eyes.”
— Victor Hugo
27.“Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their
tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by
using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by
actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person
you love because you know they don’t like doing it.”
— Marian Keyes
28. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if
we become encouragers instead of critics.”
— Joyce Meyer
29. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know
we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
30. “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
— Leo Buscaglia
31. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not
care at all.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “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
33. “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he
treasures most.”
— Dale Carnegie
34. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in
which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend
so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of
the relationship.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
36. “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
37.“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will
be lost for all eternity.”
— Leo Buscaglia
38. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too
can become great.”
— Mark Twain
39. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone
asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau
40. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles
between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your
heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world
but a world lives in you.”
— Frederick Buechner
41. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human
beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can
grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it
possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
42. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
43. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is
comfortable.”
— David Tyson Gentry
44. “When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to
complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship,
we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up
with somebody more promising.
This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a
partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are
responsible for our own fulfillment.
Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude
ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every
relationship we enter.”
— Tom Robbins
45. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein
they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling
in the world.”
— Joseph Addison
46. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the
friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
47. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.”
— Carl Jung
48. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with
creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
— Dale Carnegie
49. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the
second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
— Henry James
50. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that
person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
— Catherine Ponder
51. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding
that that’s ok with them.”
— Alain de Botton
52. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi.
53. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not
like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will
not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward
54. “What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to
your own.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
55.“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another
city.”
– George Burns
56. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius
57. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I
may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus
58. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home
at night is a very old human need.”
– Margaret Mead
59. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
60. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a
good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
61. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing
relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia
62. “There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
63. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing
it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
– Donna Roberts
64. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile
world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer
65. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like
morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
66. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
– Paul Boose
67. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never
have to live without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
68. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
W
1.
“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
2. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself
— to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because
of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a
relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous
heart.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
3. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
4. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
5. “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
6. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for
who they are.”
– Donald Miller
7. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
8. “No road is long with good company.”
— Turkish Proverb
9. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel.”
— Carl W. Buechner
10.“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men
11. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
— Swedish Proverb
12. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships
everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging
adversity.”
— Epicurus
13. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”
— Albert Schweitzer
14. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak
only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you
are never alone.”
— Audrey Hepburn
15. “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
16. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
17. “As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience
another person, you can only experience them in your mind.
Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in
your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships
are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your
experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about
your lovers come from your thoughts.
For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive.
However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not
determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to
relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them,
you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”
— Wayne Dyer
18. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
— Henry Winkler
19. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our
silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson
20. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about
yourself.”
— Andre Breton
21. “Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely,
with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.
The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand
trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most
will be spilled.
A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the
other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too
possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.”
— Kaleel Jamison
22. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the
open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
23. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human
beings.”
— Miles Franklin
24. “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
25. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the
reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
— Thomas Merton
26. “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her
eyes.”
— Victor Hugo
27.“Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their
tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by
using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by
actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person
you love because you know they don’t like doing it.”
— Marian Keyes
28. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if
we become encouragers instead of critics.”
— Joyce Meyer
29. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know
we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
30. “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
— Leo Buscaglia
31. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not
care at all.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “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
33. “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he
treasures most.”
— Dale Carnegie
34. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in
which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend
so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of
the relationship.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
36. “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
37.“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will
be lost for all eternity.”
— Leo Buscaglia
38. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too
can become great.”
— Mark Twain
39. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone
asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau
40. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles
between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your
heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world
but a world lives in you.”
— Frederick Buechner
41. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human
beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can
grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it
possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
42. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
43. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is
comfortable.”
— David Tyson Gentry
44. “When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to
complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship,
we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up
with somebody more promising.
This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a
partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are
responsible for our own fulfillment.
Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude
ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every
relationship we enter.”
— Tom Robbins
45. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein
they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling
in the world.”
— Joseph Addison
46. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the
friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
47. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.”
— Carl Jung
48. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with
creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
— Dale Carnegie
49. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the
second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
— Henry James
50. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that
person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
— Catherine Ponder
51. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding
that that’s ok with them.”
— Alain de Botton
52. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi.
53. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not
like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will
not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward
54. “What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to
your own.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
55.“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another
city.”
– George Burns
56. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius
57. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I
may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus
58. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home
at night is a very old human need.”
– Margaret Mead
59. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
60. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a
good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
61. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing
relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia
62. “There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
63. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing
it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
– Donna Roberts
64. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile
world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer
65. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like
morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
66. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
– Paul Boose
67. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never
have to live without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
68. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
W
1.
“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
2. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh
with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to
love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and
can never grow in a jealous heart.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
3. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
4. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
5. “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
6. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they
are.”
– Donald Miller
7. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
8. “No road is long with good company.”
— Turkish Proverb
9. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them
feel.”
— Carl W. Buechner
10. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men
11. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
— Swedish Proverb
12. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You
develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
— Epicurus
13. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness
causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”
— Albert Schweitzer
14. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only
words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never
alone.”
— Audrey Hepburn
15. “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
16. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
17. “As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another
person, you can only experience them in your mind.
Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind.
Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you
think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is
only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts.
For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However,
your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their
behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their
actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only
process them in your mind.”
— Wayne Dyer
18. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
— Henry Winkler
19. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence;
which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson
20. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton
21. “Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an
open hand, the sand remains where it is.
The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles
through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled.
A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other
person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly , too possessively, and the
relationship slips away and is lost.”
— Kaleel Jamison
22. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
23. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin
24. “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
25. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to
twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves
we find in them.”
— Thomas Merton
26. “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
— Victor Hugo
27. “Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy.
Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words
‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing,
such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like
doing it.”
— Marian Keyes
28. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become
encouragers instead of critics.”
— Joyce Meyer
29. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live
within.”
— James Baldwin
30. “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
— Leo Buscaglia
31. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at
all.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “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
33. “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures
most.”
— Dale Carnegie
34. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has
been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much
time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
36. “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
37. “What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for
all eternity.”
— Leo Buscaglia
38. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
— Mark Twain
39. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me
what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau
40. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at
the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach,
because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
— Frederick Buechner
41. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they
succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to
see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
42. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
43. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
— David Tyson Gentry
44. “When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us.
When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still
unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising.
This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a partner can
add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own
fulfillment.
Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves
dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
— Tom Robbins
45. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree,
there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
— Joseph Addison
46. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we
choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
47. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.”
— Carl Jung
48. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.”
— Dale Carnegie
49. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to
be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
— Henry James
50. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or
condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only
way to dissolve that link and get free.”
— Catherine Ponder
51. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s
ok with them.”
— Alain de Botton
52. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi.
53. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore
me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me
and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward
54. “What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
55. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns
56. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius
57. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not
lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus
58. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a
very old human need.”
– Margaret Mead
59. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people
never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
60. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of
thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
61. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over -
analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only
be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia
62. “There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
63. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you
when you have forgotten the words.”
– Donna Roberts
64. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same
world.”
— Wayne Dyer
65. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it
scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
66. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
– Paul Boose
67. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live
without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
68. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming
gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust