Thomas and Martha Neate, with Tutor. Joshua Reynolds ~ Oil on canvas. 167 x 180 cm. 1748. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.  Image courtesy of Olga's Gallery.

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Relationship Development Library:  Quotations

"There is no hope of joy except in human relationships." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos." ~ Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

“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.” ~ William James (Philosopher, 1842-1910)

"Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule:  If you want to be loved, be lovable." ~Denis Waitley

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."  ~Albert Einstein

“It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society.”
~J. Krishnamurti (Philosopher, 1895-1986)

"The real judges of your character aren’t your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and clerks." ~Katherine Piper

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one." ~Joan Baez

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."
~Frederick Buechner

"All of us at certain moments in our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." ~Alezis Carrel

Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or hurt unnecessarily or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces."  ~ Abraham Maslow

"Your children need your presence more than your presents." ~Jesse Jackson

"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully." ~Khahil Gibran (Lebanese artist, poet, writer)

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
~Khahil Gibran

"The first duty of love is to listen." ~Paul Tillich

"When we get caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another and ourselves." ~Jack Komfield (Author)

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (Author)

"The small Hitlers are around us every day." ~Robert Payne

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." ~ John Ruskin

"Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other." ~Joshua Loth Liebman