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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
"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."
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."
"The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life."
"One person caring about another represents life's greatest value."
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
"You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice."
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
"Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning."
"Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions."
"He who hath many friends hath none."
"A woman laughing is a woman conquered."
"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
"Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings."
"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it."
"To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us."
