Gary Smalley Quotes

#1. If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Gary Smalley

#2. Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

Gary Smalley

#3. How loud a heart could beat. Until it took your breath away.

Cornelia Funke

#4. It is such a simple formula: The more senses we bring to the moment, the more time slows, the more a catalogue of joyful vivid memories grows in our minds, the more life is filled with gratitude, and the more nourished our soul.

Brendon Burchard

#5. Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

Gary Smalley

#6. How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

Gary Smalley

#7. Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

Gary Smalley

#8. Most of those men don't want to sleep with you," he said in blunt rebuttal. "I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.

Nalini Singh

#9. Don't flash those green doe eyes at me."
"They don't melt your heart of stone?" I banter.
"Stone can't fucking melt ... it just grows hot.

Krista Ritchie

#10. Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

Gary Smalley

#11. I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.

Julian Castro

#12. A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."

Gary Smalley

#13. Love is a decision. Not always an easy one.

Gary Smalley

#14. I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. James Baldwin's words haunt: "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." Are we a nation of monsters?

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

#16. The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

Omar N. Bradley

#17. A whore's truth has too many sharp edges.

Brent Weeks

#18. May God's richest blessings be upon you both today and throughout the year and may those blessings flow through you to touch the lives of everyone you meet.

Gary Smalley

#19. Everyone has something in their life, in their world, that can break them.

Rob Thurman

#20. Make it your goal to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth.

Gary Smalley

#21. I love In-N-Out Burgers!

Jennifer Morrison

#22. And you were going to do that anyway." "I was, yes." He smiled at

J.D. Robb

#23. I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

Dontrelle Willis