"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning."
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
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"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."
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"My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain."
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"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
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"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."
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"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility."
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"If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others."
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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
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"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults."
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"And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."
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"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
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"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
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"The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them."
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"Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
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