Stephen R. Covey

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

Love is real, love is pure, you only take what you give and give what you take. At its purest it is real. No pretending.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

She doesn’t let me have control anymore. I must’ve crossed a line, I must’ve lost my mind.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.