Quotes About Relationships

Karen Kingsbury, Forever

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them.

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

I have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail.