It has been rightly said that behind every great man there is a woman. It is not often realised that woman has willingly allowed herself to be the junior partner in a relationship in which the man grows under his wife’s utter selflessness.
Don’t cultivate friends or companions who live a low-level life and who are layabouts and wasters. Don’t seek friends of inferior intellect so that you can boost your moral by talking over their heads or down to them.
Friendship is the jewel of human life and a friendless man is much to be pitied.
If we don’t let go of a resentment, anger, or hateful feeling, we are stuck with the effects of that feeling, and we begin to contaminate our own life.
To be able to do the things you want to do in both your personal and professional life, you need the support and cooperation of other people—a key core belief.
In essence, superior human relations involve adding value to other people because they, like you, deserve it.
Friendships add a great deal to life, and lasting friendships arise usually between people interested in the same subject or activity. And on this ground alone, interests are of immense value in life.
In later life most people find it rather difficult to make new friends. But since the desire to give and to receive affection persists throughout life, enduring satisfaction can only be attained through happy friendships.
Your marriage, friendship and business relationship can improve dramatically when you focus on sending out love rather than demanding attention, compliance, or love in return.
It makes you feel so sad that man has not discovered the secret of living. The secret is to relate oneself harmoniously on various levels in various fields of action.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Relationships for us, instead of becoming occasions of joy, opportunities for sharing, events for relating one to the life around oneself, become problems that scare us.
