Quotes about the people you keep close

The feeling of being understood is especially sweet to the solitary souls who are forever longing for “understanding.”

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbors.

One who seeks friendship for favourable occasions, strips it of all its nobility.

You can always find reasons to leave. You just need to find more reasons to stay.

Not a mother, not a father will do so much, nor any other relative; a well-directed mind will do us greater service.

Don't marry someone who doesn't understand that you need to work, or sees your work as competition for your attention.

Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!

Man is by nature adapted to a social existence.

Between Husband and Wife there is thought to be Friendship by a law of nature: man being by nature disposed to pair, more than to associate in Communities.

You don't have to be mean when you have a real point to make. In fact, you don't want to. If you have something real to say, being mean just gets in the way.

Reproach and hatred are always futile attempts to free one’s self apparently from the parents, but in reality from one’s own hindering longing for the parents.

Conflicts are essential for great relationships because they are the means by which people determine whether their principles are aligned and resolve their differences.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

I believe the most important decision in your life is who you choose as your life partner.

I don’t think about legacy much. I just think about being able to get up every day and go in and hang around these great people and hopefully create something that other people will love as much as we do.

There are many nights I sleep alone. I don't have to, but I do.

The most selfish thing in the world you can do is to be generous.

The more I act like my normal self on dates, the happier I am with the outcome.

As a rule, we most prefer to say yes to the requests of someone we know and like.

Asking for someone’s advice is an expression of trust — that’s why it’s intimidating.

At my age, I've managed to weed out most of the jerks and I don't work with them at all.

The rule says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.

The number one thing that predicted longevity in those men was having a reliable partner.