relations

We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make us feel. And because they have granted us this extraordinary gift__ chance to experience love, joy, compassion, and security __t is our exclusive privilege to make them feel wonderful about themselves, especially during days when they, themselves, don't feel so wonderful.

Don't ask too much for space. They grow into voids.

There are moments in relationship when you didn't speak, you didn't have to; but you talked a lot.

The only relationship where you__l never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.