In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
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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)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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)
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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)
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)
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
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 is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- 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
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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