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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
Brené Brown
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
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.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
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 only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Unknown
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love and acceptance go hand in hand. When we accept someone completely, we love them unconditionally.
Unknown
Love and acceptance are the two most powerful things you can give someone.
Unknown
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Unknown
Love is the absence of judgment.
Dalai Lama XIV
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Love and patience are two powerful words that can change the world.
Unknown
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
Patience is the virtue that enables us to endure hardship with faith and hope.
Elder Robert D. Hales
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J.K. Rowling
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.
Unknown
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.
Anna Taylor
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
Joy is the best makeup.
Anne Lamott
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Russell M. Nelson
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.
Unknown
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the key to understanding how we can work together in a world that is rapidly changing.
Simon Sinek
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
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 greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people, and it's what makes us fully human.
Sue Monk Kidd
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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 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 most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan
We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.
Catherine Pulsifer
We are not separate from each other. We are one in the river of time.
Lloyd Alexander
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.
Dalai Lama
We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.
Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and love. It is the foundation of a harmonious relationship.
Unknown
Love and kindness are the keys to a happy and harmonious life. They open the doors to a world of peace and joy.
Unknown
Love and kindness are the foundation of a harmonious family. They create a bond that can withstand any challenge.
Unknown
Love and kindness are the building blocks of a harmonious community. They bring people together and create a sense of belonging.
Unknown
Love and kindness are the glue that holds society together. Without them, we would be lost.
Unknown
Love and kindness are the antidote to hatred and violence. They can heal even the deepest wounds.
Unknown
Love and kindness are the essence of a harmonious world. They are the light that shines in the darkness.
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 most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Respect is love, and love is respect. Both are not just words, but actions.
Debasish Mridha
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Berndt
Respect is the foundation of love.
Anonymous
Love and respect go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other.
Anonymous
Respect is the key to a successful relationship. Without it, love is unstable.
Anonymous
Respect is the glue that holds relationships together. Without it, they fall apart.
Anonymous
Love and respect are the building blocks of a happy life.
Anonymous
Respect is the highest form of love. If you truly love someone, you will always respect them.
Anonymous
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