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"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed."
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
"I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me."
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
"When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well."
"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
"People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway."
"Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
"When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested."
"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
"If you're lucky enough to be different, never change."
"You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other."
"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are."
"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."