Avenues to Personal Relationships

The Avenues Personal Relationships

Personal Relationship Quotes for College Students *

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

      
  - Madame de Staël(Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein), 1766-1817, Swiss born French speaking writer

  
  Image source: Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
  

• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
  

       - General Peyton C. March, U.S. Army, 1864-1955 

  
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  Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

       - Arnold H. Glasgow, 1902-1998, American humorist
  

• Your luck is how you treat people.
  

       - Bridget O'Donnell

• It's easy to be there for someone when they're up.
  But it's the good ones who are there for you when you're down.
  

   

  - Mike McCurry,
  

  Born 1954,
  

  Chief of Staff for Preisident Bill Clinton

   
  

  Image source: Wikipedia

• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.           
  
  - Nagarjuna, c. 100-10200 AD, Indian/Tibetan Father of Mahayan
  
  
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• But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
  - Anna Quindlen, Born 1952. American author, journalist, and opinion columnist

  
  
  Image source: Anna Quindlen Biography on her website

• There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
  Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981, President of Egypt

  
  
  Image source: Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, The University of Maryland

• Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
  

  - Yiddish proverb

  
  
  Image source: Gainesville Catholic Worker

• It's all about relationships. People were made for relationships. We have to share who we are, what we have and where we're going. We have to reach out to others.
  - Rev. John T. McDonough, American Roman Catholic Priest
• You have to endure what you can't change.
  

       - Marie de France, Poet evidently born in France and living in England during the late 12th century

  
  

  
  Image source: Biography at enloehs.wcpss.net
  

• It's all about relationships. People were made for relationships. We have to share who we are, what we have and where we're going. We have to reach out to others.
  
  

       - Rev. John T. McDonough, American Roman Catholic Priest

• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
       - David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish economist, philosopher and historian    

  
  

  

  
  
  by Louis Carrogis about 1764
  
  

  Image source: National Galleries of Scotland
  

  
  

• One should allow words of temperance to come out of their mouth and words of wisdom to settle in their heart, mind and soul.
       - Unknown

  
  

  
  Image source: an email

  
  

   

  
  

   

• All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.
       - Julius Rosenwald, 1862 -1932, American clothier, manufacturer, business executive, and philanthropist.

  
  

  
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•      If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
       - Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American entertainer

  
  

  
  Image source: All About Frank Sinatra - Life.com

• A friend is a second self.
            - Aristotle, 384-322 BCE, Greek philosopher

  
  

  
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• You know, life is full of imperfect things... and imperfect people. I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else. What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each others faults and choosing to celebrate each others' differences, is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.
       - Unknown

  
  

  
  Image source: an email from my brother
  

  
  

   

• When the ways of friends converge, the whole world looks like home for an hour.
       - Herman Hesse, 1877-1962, German-Swiss poet

  
  

  
  
  Image source: First Full-View Photo of Earth
  - National Geographic

  
  

   

• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
       - Oprah Winfrey, Born 1954, American actress & television talk show host

  
  

  
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• It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
       - Unknown

  
  

   
  
  Image source: Web Gallery of Art

• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
       - Seneca, B.C. 3-65 A.D., Roman statesman, philosopher and writer

  
  

  
  Belisarius Receiving Alms by Jacques-Louis David
  1781, Oil on canvas, 288 x 312 cm
  Musée des Beaux-Arts, LilleImage
  Image source: Web Gallery of Art
  
  

  
  

  
  

• Lieberman's Law: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
       - (I don't know who Lieberman is, do you?)

  
  

    The Court Jester by Tim Shumat
  Image source: SciFi and Fantasy Art
  
  

  
  

   

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.
       - Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Humanitarian Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship

  
  

    William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) Grand Canyon 1910, oil on canvas
  Image source: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX