"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
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"The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love."
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"Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever."
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"We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics."
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"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee."
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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"The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe."
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"The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal."
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"We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship."
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"Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big."
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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
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"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you."
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"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
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"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
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"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
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"Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others."
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