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Welcome to these Tenuous Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
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Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- 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
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
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
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
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)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
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
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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