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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
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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I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- 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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
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
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- 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
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)
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
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
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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