Relationships

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's

Jean Paul Richter

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?