Virginia Satir Making Contact Communication is to a relationship what breathing is to maintaining~ life.~ William Shakespeare Sonnets Joy delights in joy.~ Song of Solomon 1:2 Bible Thy love is better than wine.~ Ecclesiastes 8:15 Bible A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to~ drink, and to be merry.~ Montaigne I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world~ than myself.~ John 12:35 Bible Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.~ Dinah Shore Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't~ give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.~ Robert Frost The only way round is through.~ George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.~ Ken Keyes Jr. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in~ a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.~ Jean Anouilh Things are beautiful if you love them.~ Song of Solomon 4:10 Bible How much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine~ ointments than all spices!~ Anon. If you really do put a small value on yourself, rest assured that~ the world will not raise the price.~ Proverb A joy that's shared is a joy made double.~ 1 John 2:10 Bible He that loveth his brother abideth in the light.~ Proverb When one is wise, two are happy.~ Aldous Huxley We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.~ Albert Schweitzer One thing I know: the only ones among you who shall be really happy~ are those who have sought and found how to serve.~ Genesis 2:18 Bible It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a~ help meet for him.~ Thomas Merton The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late,~ is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer~ because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you~ in proportion to your fear of being hurt. ~ Helen Keller When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but we often~ look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which~ has opened for us.~ Erich Fromm Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's own~ identity.~ Anon. 'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.~ Robert Razz It only takes one person to make a relationship work.~ Isaiah 11:9 Bible A little child shall lead them.~ G. K. Chesterton Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because~ reality is a spirit.~ John 13:17 Bible If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.~ La Rouchefoucald True love is like a ghost; everybody talks about it but few have~ seen it.~ 1 Corinthians 13:4 Bible Love envieth not.~ Psalms 126:5 Bible They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.~ Hasidic Saying Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an~ ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men; from none is the source~ of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore~ the most important thing is not to despair.~ John 16:24 Bible Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.~ Song of Solomon 4:16 Bible Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.~ Ecclesiastes 6:7 Bible And the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is~ not filled.~ Kahil Gibran The Prophet Let there be spaces in your togetherness.~ 1 Corinthians 7:14 Bible The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the~ unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband.~ 1 John 3:18 Bible Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and truth.~ Eleanor Roosevelt No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.~ Frank J. Giblin II Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?~ Hindu Proverb There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The~ true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.~ Hannibal We will either find a way, or make one.~ Thomas Jefferson The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.~ Proverbs 10:12 Bible Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love coverth all sins.~ Ecclesiastes 30:22 Bible The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.~ Anon. Love is more easily illustrated then defined.~ J.C.F. Schiller Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.~ English Proverb At the gate where suspicion enters, love goes out.~ St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly with yourself. Do not~ lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly~ set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.~ Abraham J. Heschel Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows~ with the ability to say no to oneself.~ Song of Solomon 8:6 Bible Love is as strong as death.~ Ausonius To be loved, love.~ Ecclesiastes 6:9 Bible Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.~ Mark Twain If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.~ Robert F. Kennedy Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.~ Agnes Repplier It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom~ we never laugh.~ Psalms 30:5 Bible Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.~ Lily Tomlin We're all in this together -- by ourselves.~ Proverbs 5:18 Bible Rejoice with the wife of thy youth.~ French Proverb Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.~ Ranier Maria Rilke A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian~ of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even~ between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to~ exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they~ succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible~ for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.~ Ephesians 5:28 Bible He that loveth his wife loveth himself.~ Proverbs 15:17 Bible Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and~ hatred therewith.~ Proverbs 15:13 Bible A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.~ Antoine de Saint-Exup‚ry Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking~ together in the same direction.~ The Talmud The sun will set without thy assistance.~ Galatians 5:13 Bible By love serve one another.~ Ecclesiastes 9:7 Bible Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.~ Robert Louis Stevenson The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.~ 1 John 4:18 Bible There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.~ Joseph Barth Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.~ John Donne Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.~ Richard Bach Illusions Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.~ Anon. The man who puts the most wood on the fire gets the biggest~ blaze.~ Goethe Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness~ has genius, power, and magic in it.~ Barnum and Bailey If you have a good act, don't change it.~ Harriette Eubanks Gratitude is the essence of joy.~ Anon. He who laughs, lasts.~ Para Love Kingsbury Happiness is a road to travel, not a place to be.~