Relationships

“We will get exactly what we give, but we shall have to give it first.”

Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal.”

Emmet Fox

Power Through Constructive Thinking

“One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.”

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind

“There is no unity without equality.”

Malinda E. Cramer

Divine Science and Healing

“Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People1936

“A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.”

John Gray

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Women are like waves. When they feel loved their self-esteem rises and falls like a wave.”

John Gray

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

Leo Buscaglia

Living, Loving and Learning

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Leo Buscaglia

Living, Loving and Learning

“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”

Leo Buscaglia

Love

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Leo Buscaglia

Love

“Love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“We're all just walking each other home.”

Ram Dass

Walking Each Other Home

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.”

Thaddeus Golas

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.”

Thaddeus Golas

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will take us to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free.”

Thaddeus Golas

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Don't make assumptions.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

“Belonging is about being in relationships and communities where you're valued for who you are intrinsically, and where you value others in turn.”

Emily Esfahani Smith

The Power of Meaning

“In every given moment we have a divine spiritual assignment: choose love or choose fear.”

Gabby Bernstein

Miracles Now

“You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.”

Iyanla Vanzant

In the Meantime

“Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.”

Iyanla Vanzant

In the Meantime

“Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.”

Iyanla Vanzant

In the Meantime

“All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.”

Iyanla Vanzant

In the Meantime

“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”

Jack Kornfield

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

“The ultimate metaphysical secret is that there are no boundaries in the universe.”

Ken Wilber

No Boundary

“With self-compassion, we give ourselves the same kindness and care we'd give to a good friend.”

Kristin Neff

Self-Compassion

“Your quality of life is determined by the quality of your relationships.”

Lisa Nichols

Abundance Now

“The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.”

Lynne McTaggart

The Intention Experiment

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”

Marianne Williamson

A Return to Love

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.”

Susan Cain

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

Aristotle

Politics, Book I

“Never in this world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. This is an eternal law.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 1, v. 5 (trans. Eknath Easwaran)

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbours.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 25 (trans. James Legge)

“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book VII, Ch. 21 (trans. James Legge)

“Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book XV, Ch. 23 (trans. James Legge)

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, far the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

Epicurus

Principal Doctrines, XXVII

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi, "A Great Wagon" (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)