Avenues to Personal Relationships

The Avenues Personal Relationships 

Personal Relationship Quotes for College Students *

• The easiest way to find people's hot buttons is to let them ask questions of you. People will ask you very specific questions. When they start giving you details, you're beginning to make a connection with them.
  - Brian William, Co-founder of a web systems development firm
• Be compassionate and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned this lesson the world would be so much a better place.
  - Mitchell Albom, Born 1958, American author
• A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
  - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik), 1826-1887, English novelist and poet
• It only takes about three minutes to write a thank-you note, fold it into an envelope and mail it, but the power of it is awesome.
  - Wanda Loskot, Business coach
• Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
  - Wilson Mizner,1876-1933, American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur
• To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
  -Thiruvalluvar, c. 1st century BCE, Tamil poet, between the second century BC and the eighth century AD.
  
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• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891, American poet, editor, and diplomat

• I have never gone to sleep with a grievance against anyone. And, as far as I could, I have never let anyone go to sleep with a grievance against me.
        - Abba Agathon, 4th to 5th Century, Egyptian monk

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  Abba Agathon
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  Abba Agathon Hongaars Orthodokse Kerk

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
  - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American essayist, naturalist, poet
• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
  - Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American writer
• Life isn't about the car you drive, the home you live in, your social status or the size of your bank account... it's about how many hearts you touch.
  - Unknown
• You get more than you give when you give more than you get.
  - Unknown
• If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.
  - Nikka - age 6
  Drawing submitted by David on August 15, 2006 to Fourth Pig
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• We are others harvest
  We are each others business
  We are each others magnitude
  And bond.
  - Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000, American poet
  The First African American to Win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature
• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
  - William Hazlitt, 1778-1830, English noted for literary criticism
• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
  - Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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  A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
  

       - Unknown

  
  

  
  

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
  - Nelson Mandela, Born 1918, South African statesman, 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace
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• A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
  - Diogenes, 412?-323 BCE, Greek philosopher
• You will never understand another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.
  - Dakota Sioux saying
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       - Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (1904-1991)
  
  
• Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
  - Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914?, American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, fabulist and satirist
• He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
  - Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet
• There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
  - Elmer G. Letterman, 1897 - 1982 American businessman and author
• It is hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
  - Billy Rose, American Broadway producer and entertainment entrepreneur
  Billy Rose