Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
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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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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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
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
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
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)
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
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
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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- 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
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
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- 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
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- 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
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)
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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)
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
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
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
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