There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.
She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.'
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her,’ Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?'
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'

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1. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
   – Anais Nin
2. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
   – Leo F. Buscaglia
3. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
   – Walter Winchell
4. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
   – Carl Jung
5. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
   – William James
6. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
   – Donald Miller
7. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
   — Benjamin Franklin
8. “No road is long with good company.”
   — Turkish Proverb
9. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
   — Carl W. Buechner
10. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
    — Joseph F. Newton Men
11. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
    — Swedish Proverb
12. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
    — Epicurus
13. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”
    — Albert Schweitzer
14. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
    — Audrey Hepburn
15. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
    — Dale Carnegie
16. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    — Mahatma Gandhi
17. “As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind.
    Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts.
    For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”
    — Wayne Dyer
18. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
    — Henry Winkler
19. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
    — John Tillotson
20. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
    — Andre Breton
21. “Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.
    The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled.
    A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.”
    — Kaleel Jamison
22. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
    — Honore de Balzac
23. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
    — Miles Franklin
24. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one”
    — C.S. Lewis
25. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
    — Thomas Merton
26. “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
    — Victor Hugo
27. “Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.”
    — Marian Keyes
28. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
    — Joyce Meyer
29. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
    — James Baldwin
30. “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
    — Leo Buscaglia
31. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
    — Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
    — Anthony Robbins
33. “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
    — Dale Carnegie
34. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
    — Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”
    — Norman Vincent Peale
36. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
    — Oprah Winfrey
37. “What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.”
    — Leo Buscaglia
38. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
    — Mark Twain
39. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
    — Henry David Thoreau
40. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
    — Frederick Buechner
41. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
    — Rainer Maria Rilke
42. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    — Gilbert K. Chesterton
43. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
    — David Tyson Gentry
44. “When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising.
    This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment.
    Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
    — Tom Robbins
45. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
    — Joseph Addison
46. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
    — Tennessee Williams
47. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    — Carl Jung
48. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
    — Dale Carnegie
49. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    — Henry James
50. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
    — Catherine Ponder
51. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.”
    — Alain de Botton
52. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
    — Mahatma Gandhi.
53. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
    – William Arthur Ward
54. “What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.”
    – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
55. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    – George Burns
56. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
    – Confucius
57. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
    – Albert Camus
58. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.”
    – Margaret Mead
59. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
    – Ernest Hemingway
60. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
    – Eleanor Roosevelt
61. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
    – Leo F. Buscaglia
62. “There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
    While journeying east and west –
    The only folks we really wound
    Are those we love the best.
    We flatter those we scarcely know,
    We please the fleeting guest,
    And deal full many a thoughtless blow
    To those who love us best.”
    – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
63. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
    – Donna Roberts
64. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
    — Wayne Dyer
65. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
    – F. Scott Fitzgerald
66. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
    – Paul Boose
67. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
    – Winnie the Pooh
68. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    – Marcel Proust

1. They don’t overlook the possibility to save money

These seemingly meaningless expenses can be easily avoided, and the amount of money you can save can amount to something rather significant.

2. They don’t heavily rely on others

There is nothing wrong with having friends, family members or coworkers you can trust and rely on. Everyone should have someone they can count on when things go south. Heavily relying on someone, however, only portrays you as powerless. As a smart individual, you should never indulge such a commodity.

3. They don’t act irresponsibly

Do not mistake this statement as “Smart people don’t have fun” or “Smart people are boring.” You can have fun, you can have a drink, or have a good laugh. Irresponsibility does not equal uninteresting, it only means you like to have an organized lifestyle.

Superior organization leads to greater efficiency, whether you are a student, an employee, a business owner, an artist, or a celebrity.

4. They don’t feel defeated just because they need to reevaluate their convictions

Our environment, our parents, our education and our past are all responsible for forging our convictions and our perception of the world. It leads to a creation of what is referred to as “umwelt” which roughly translates as “self-centered world”. 

5. They don’t dwell on their errors

To clarify, this refers to companies that manufactured a bad product, or movie directors who made bad movies, etc. It is not uncommon to come up with an idea for something that appears like a true masterwork for us, but once it’s realized, the general public may not be that impressed. It can feel humiliating and really unpleasant, however it happens, whether we like it or not.

6. They don’t permit their past to hold them back

The past cannot be erased, and it does not come back to haunt us, it simply never leaves. We need to learn how to cope with it, and not allow it to interfere with our future achievements. If there is nothing useful to be recovered from the past experience, simply close those doors and let it go.

7. They don’t rely on good luck to solve their problems

“Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.” A good quote to be guided by when you invest your time and efforts into something. Hope for the best possible scenario is what motivates us, whereas preparing for the worst prevents us from falling apart. On the other hand, simply hoping for the things to work themselves out is no different from being lazy.

Luck should only take credit for a fragment of your success, considering that relying on it too frequently will only suffocate your ambition.

8. They don’t neglect important aspects of their business 

One of the key factors responsible for success is attention to details or just paying good attention in general. When one is trying to be a smart business owner, he or she is generally governed by the idea that with a quality product, success is guaranteed.

9. They don’t hesitate to learn from their mistakes

Mistakes are inevitable. Sooner or later something goes wrong, and an unaccounted for variable emerges, and places a grave dent in our previously well-laid schemes. You can’t always have everything under your control, and we do not have the degree of awareness necessary to view every possible angle.

10. They don’t give up on their ideas just because other people don’t agree with them

I know that it was stated how knowing when to give up and start anew is a good thing, and how being too stubborn or pushy will ultimately yield bad results. Well, a wise person knows when he or she should push the envelope and stand firm when the situation takes a turn for the worst.

There is a difference between when someone gives your idea a chance and did not like it in the end and someone not giving your idea a chance at all. We are all entitled to constructive feedback on why our ideas or products are not satisfactory.