Relationship/Life Quotes

"Your perception of reality will be largely determined by your location, location, location." ~ (I couldn't resist) Scott Christie

"If you are not satisfied with your progress after 90 days, we will refund your misery." ~ AA

"You can either make your life a 'statement' or a 'question mark'." ~ Scott Christie

"Peace takes at least as much time to find as it does to live." ~ Scott Christie

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." ~ Chinese Proverb

"You cannot solve a problem with same thinking that created it." ~ Albert Einstein

"It is the commonest of mistakes to consider the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." ~ C. W. Leadbeater

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." ~ Doris Mortman

"The medication I take is at least as important as the company I keep; and sometimes related." ~ Scott Christie

"Inner peace is what we desire most and strangely, continue to look for in others." ~ Scott Christie

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~ Catherine Aird

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." ~Unknown

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." ~George Eliot

"If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed." ~ Kate Halverson

"Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience." Anna Quindlen

"Figuring out who you could be is the whole point of the human experience." ~Scott Christie adapted from quote from Anna Quindlen

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~Thoreau

"Between naivete and maturity are choices." ~ Scott Christie

"Sometimes doing your best is simply avoiding both your worst and mediocrity." ~Scott Christie

"Looking to change the world we forget that integrity is not taught but rather sought." ~Scott Christie

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction." ~Saint-Exupèry

"If anyone is to remain pleased with you, he should be pleased with himself whenever he thinks of you." ~Bradley

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved." ~Mignon McLaughlin

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." ~Nietzsche

"The position of narcissist is becoming the vocation of choice in those making a career out of relationships." ~Scott Christie

"Where there is no vision, the people perish..." ~Proverbs 29:18; King James Version of the Bible

"Pain is not an indication of failure, but rather living." ~Scott Christie

"When you discover you're riding a dead horse it is best to dismount." ~Sioux Saying

"It is unwise to assume you know yourself already." ~ Scott Christie

"Leaning excessively into people may be a support but it also increases the likelihood of toppling over." ~Scott Christie

"Learning from one mistakes is easy compared to continuing to live with them." ~Scott Christie

"If you have all the right answers, you may be answering all the wrong questions." ~Scott Christie

"The problem with romantic love is what you imagine isn't quite the truth and what you fear is." ~Scott Christie

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." ~1 Corinthians 13:4-8; New International Version of the Bible

"Life, as in love and gardening, the process tends to be the product." ~Scott Christie

"Self-reflection is easy, unless you don't like what stares back." ~Scott Christie

"To be or to do, that is the question." ~Scott Christie

"Two leaps per chasm is fatal." ~Chinese Proverb

"It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his son to be." ~Homer

"The happiest liaisons are based on mutual misunderstanding." ~La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

"Only the shallow know themselves" ~Oscar Wilde

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." ~Voltaire

"One should never know too precisely whom one has married." ~Neitzsche

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." ~Emerson

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~Albert Einstein

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden." ~Goethe

"Most unhappiness is caused by giving up what you want the most for what you want in the moment". ~Unknown

"Hell is the suffering of those unable to love." ~Dostoevsky

"It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feels safe." ~Ruiz

"If we try to change them, this means we don't really like them." ~Ruiz

"Resisting love and pressuring for love emerge from the same place- the simple hope that one might be okay." ~ Scott Christie

"Anger is always about controlling others to get your desires met." ~Scott Christie

"I don’t think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." ~Stoppard

"We usually see only the things we are looking for—so much that we sometimes see them where they are not." ~Hoffer

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~Baldwin

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them." ~Rochelfaucauld

"If you shoot for the moon and miss, you still end up among the stars" ~Unknown

"Independence, creativity, and self-reliance are all facilitated when self-criticism and self-evaluation are basic and evaluation by others is of secondary importance." ~Carl Rogers

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." ~1 John 4:18; New International Version of Bible

"Where there is no hope, we must invent it." ~Elie Weisel.

"Far Better It Is To Dare Mighty Things, To Win Glorious Triumphs, Even Though Checkered With Failure ~ Than To Live In That Grey Twilight That Knows Neither Victory Nor Defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain