Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Relationships
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday. [Pg. 57.]
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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I believe that the love of man for woman, and the love of woman for man is holy;
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I believe that when I make a sale I make a friend.
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And I believe that when I part with a man I must do it in such a way that when he sees me again he will be glad - and so will I.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.