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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
Happiness is only real when shared.
Jon Krakauer
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
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
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free.
Tara Brach
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.
Anonymous
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
The more grateful we are, the more happiness we get in our lives.
Unknown
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the glue that holds relationships together.
Carolyn Hax
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is the foundation of a happy and healthy relationship.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Stephen Covey
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J.K. Rowling
The more you understand, the less you judge.
Anonymous
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The more you understand someone's story, the less likely you are to judge them.
Anonymous
The greatest form of love is understanding.
Anonymous
When you understand someone, it's easier to forgive them.
Anonymous
Respect is the first step towards love.
Unknown
Respect is the glue that holds relationships together. If you don't have it, your relationship will crumble eventually.
Unknown
Respect is one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone.
Unknown
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The best way to show respect to someone is to listen to them.
Bryant H. McGill
Respect is the foundation of a healthy relationship.
Unknown
Respect is love in plain clothes.
Frankie Byrne
Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
Brian Tracy
Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it.
R.G. Risch
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
Brené Brown
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.
Unknown
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Alain de Botton
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The best way to find happiness is to find inspiration.
Unknown
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
Henri Nouwen
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young
Trust is the first step to love.
Munshi Premchand
Trust is the foundation of all human connections, from chance encounters to friendships and intimate relationships.
Stephen Covey
Trust is the key to success in any relationship. Without it, the relationship is doomed to failure.
Unknown
Trust is the highest form of human emotion. It is the foundation of all relationships.
Unknown
Trust is the bedrock of any relationship. Without it, there can be no real connection.
Unknown
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley
Communication is the key to a healthy relationship.
Willie Aames
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
Communication is not just talking, it's also listening.
Anonymous
Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.
Peter Shepherd
Communication is the lifeline of any relationship. Without it, the relationship will starve itself to death.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
Communication is the art of being understood.
Peter Ustinov
Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.
Richard Branson
Compromise is the key to any successful relationship. Without it, there can be no happiness.
Unknown
Happiness in a relationship is not about getting everything you want, but about finding a way to make things work through compromise.
Unknown
Compromise is not about losing. It's about deciding that the other person has just as much right to be happy with the end result as you do.
Donna Martini
The best relationships are the ones where both people are willing to compromise and work together to find a solution that makes them both happy.
Unknown
Compromise is the art of sacrificing something you want for the sake of something you both want even more: happiness.
Unknown
Happiness in a relationship is not about getting your way all the time, but about finding a way to meet in the middle through compromise.
Unknown
Compromise is the foundation of any successful relationship. Without it, there can be no happiness, no trust, and no love.
Unknown
Compromise is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. It takes courage to put aside your own desires for the sake of someone else's happiness.
Unknown
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
Tony Robbins
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The best way to keep your relationships happy is to simply keep your mouth shut more often.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
The best relationships are the ones where you don't have to pretend to be someone else, just to be liked for being someone you're not.
Unknown
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The best relationships are the ones where you can be yourself and feel comfortable.
Unknown
The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only way to do good work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The only way to have a good relationship is if you demand a good relationship from your partner.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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