"Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others."
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"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."
"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
"We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence."
"How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved."
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
"if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second."
"We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it."
"However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside."
"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."
"You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again."
"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things."
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."