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Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
by Amy Grant

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

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I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir

Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous

Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin

She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain

Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir

Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho

It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin

Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

If people are good only because they
fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization
is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel

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