600 Powerful Money Spoils Relationship Quotes To Inspire You

1. “Money may make the world go round, but it has no place in a healthy relationship.”

2. “Money is like honey; too much of it spoils the sweetness of relationships.”

3. “Recently, as I was teaching this concept, a CFO—who deals with numbers all the time—came up to me and said, “This is fascinating! I’ve always seen trust as a nice thing to have, but I never, ever, thought of it in terms of its impact on economics and speed. Now that you’ve pointed it out, I can see it everywhere I turn. “For example, we have one supplier in whom we have complete trust. Everything happens fast with this group, and the relationship hardly costs us anything to maintain. But with another supplier, we have very little trust. It takes forever to get anything done, and it costs us a lot of time and effort to support the relationship. And that’s costing us money—too much money!” This CFO was amazed when everything suddenly fell into place in his mind. Even though he was a “numbers” guy, he had not connected the dots with regard to trust. Once he saw it, everything suddenly made sense. He could immediately see how trust was affecting everything in the organization, and how robust and powerful the idea of the relationship between trust, speed, and cost was for analyzing what was happening in his business and for taking steps to significantly increase profitable growth.”

4. Why should I talk about money in the relationship?

5. “Money can be a great blessing, but it can also hinder our relationships when we focus on it more than we focus on each other.”

6. “When couples start arguing about money, it’s no longer about keeping their relationship healthy.”

7. “Love doesn’t cost a thing, but money does have the potential to destroy relationships.”

8. “Money cannot buy happiness but yet it provides us with things that make us happy. Money is not only a way of gaining relationships but also a way of depriving them.”

9. “Money should never get in the way of a genuine relationship; if it ever starts to, then that’s a sure sign something needs to change.”

10. “Money is useful for buying the necessities of life, like food and shelter and such other things, but it must never be allowed to interfere with love or relationships.”

11. Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spend money they haven’t actually generated themselves.” – Marian Keyes

12. Can a relationship last without money?

13. For me, the best things in life — meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures — are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money”.- Ray Dalio

14. “Money talks, but it cannot replace loyalty and trust in a relationship.”

15. “Money is a root of all evil and it can also ruin relationships unless both parties manage it well and equally together to have a healthy relationship with each other and their finances.”

16. What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life. - Oprah Winfrey

17. “Money doesn’t guarantee a happily ever after; in fact, it often comes between relationships.”

18. “Money tarnishes individuals’ relationships because it corrupts the very fabric of love and trust between them.”

19. There is an important principle that guides our thinking about the relationship between parenting and money - and that principle is that more is not always better.”

20. But what drove Mamaw’s initial dislike were the parts of him that most resembled her. Mamaw apparently understood what would take me another twenty years to learn: that social class in America isn’t just about money. And her desire that her children do better than she had done extended past their education and employment and into the relationships they formed. When it came to spouses for her kids and parents for her grandkids, Mamaw felt, whether she knew it consciously, that she wasn’t good enough.”

21. “When someone puts money above relationships they are setting themselves up for failure and a lonely road ahead.”

22. “When money comes between two people’s relationship, everything else goes out the window.”

23. “Money can’t buy happiness, but lack of money can ruin relationships”

24. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”

25. “When money becomes an issue in the relationship, it’s not really about the money anymore.”

26. “You can compromise on many things in life, but not on your relationship values and morals; not even for money.”

27. I don’t want a relationship where they hold you back. I want a best friend I can sleep with, make love to, hustle with, travel with, shop with, chill, and live with. I want a partner in crime, a life partner. Someone that I can laugh and build with. Somebody that I can trust with my heart, my money, and my life. Somebody, I’m not afraid to lose because I know they will always be there. Relationships just aren’t for me, but a partnership, yeah, I will take that.”

28. “Money can ruin relationships because instead of caring about each other for who we are, all that matters is the money.”

29. “If you value your relationship more than money, you will handle financial matters with wisdom and an understanding heart towards each other’s needs and concerns”

30. If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.” — Dave Ramsey

31. “Money will make a relationship stronger if used wisely, but if misused, it can tear apart even the strongest of bonds.”

32. Making a good woman feel secure in the relationship has nothing to do with how much money you spend ON HER, but rather how much quality time you are willing to spend with her.”

33. “A relationship based on money will lead only to unhappiness and dysfunction when reality sets in..”

34. “When money breaks trust between people, then nothing can save their relationship from crumbling down.”

35. “Money shouldn’t be at the forefront of your relationship; true happiness is found in shared experiences between two people who care deeply for each other”

36. “Money can’t buy you love, but it sure does put a strain on relationships.”

37. “Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.” ―Janette Rallison

38. “Too much money causes people to lose touch with what’s important, with why relationships matter more than anything else.”

39. “If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it.” — Hannah Whithall Smith

40. “What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell

41. “Wealth can buy luxuries, but not love; beauty, but not happiness; fame, but not peace; partners, but not relationships.”

42. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” – Mary Manin Morrissey

43. I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west — there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world. — Jarod Kintz

44. “Everyone wants 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.”

45. “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

46. “The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be.” – Graham White

47. “As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”

48. “It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that’s why the world calls her grandmother.”

49. “The death of one relationship always start with the small arguments and then the suspicions.” – Unknown

50. There is nothing like grandchildren in your arms to put a smile on your face, a lump in your throat, and a warm feel in your heart.

51. “Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin; Tweet this!

52. “Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why you keep allowing it to happen.” – Robert Tew

53. “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

54. “It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.” — Christopher Morley

55. “Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.”― Sharon Salzberg

56. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” – Nicholas Sparks

57. “The best financial advice I can give to someone who's overwhelmed with their finances is "ask for help!”

58. “The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.” – Sonya Parker

59. “If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you.” – Lori Petro

60. “I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” – Rita Rudner

61. “What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars worth of pleasure.” — Gene Perret

62. “Financial freedom doesn't mean to be free from money troubles. Financial freedom actually means freedom from obsession of dollar bills.”

63. “A child seldom needs a good talking to as much as a good listening to.” – Robert Brault

64. “It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.” -Greek proverb

65. “Grandpas always have time for you when everyone else is too busy.”

66. “Money comes from working hard" I've come to believe is just a line rich people tell themselves to feel better. Lots of people work hard and get nothing. It's just a myth: "Come to America, work hard, get rich", like dying and going to heaven.”

67. “A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.”

68. “The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.”

69. “Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.” — Christopher Rice; Tweet this!

70. “Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”― Israelmore Ayivor

71. “At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” –Tara Westover

72. “Wealth is only of use when it builds rather than destroys relationships.”

73. “I can't speak for every parent out there, but I can tell you that child support is both a money angel and a demon who taunts the soul unto destruction.”

74. “I know you’ve loved me since I was born, but I’ve loved you my whole life.”

75. “The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.”

76. “I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me.”

77. “When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.”

78. “I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy.” — Caroline Kennedy

79. “The heart was made to be broken.” ― Oscar Wilde

80. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life.” – Steve Martin

81. “There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”

82. “Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” — Margaret Mead

83. “Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.” –Germany Kent

84. “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” — Richard Bach

85. “Beauty is a whore, I like money better.”

86. “If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” — Lois Wyse

87. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand; Tweet this!

88. “Remove yourself from people who treat you like your time doesn’t matter like your feelings are worthless, or like your soul is replaceable.” – S. Mcnutt

89. “Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.” — Alistair Begg; Tweet this!

90. “If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” — Linda Henley

91. “It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others.”― Stefan Molyneux

92. “Grandparents make the world a little softer, a little kinder, and a little warmer.”

93. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” — Zig Ziglar; Tweet this!

94. “You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”

95. No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you. - Author: Billy Graham

96. “I’d have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I’d write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie’s music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle—something heroic, or wonderful—that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.”

97. “In some cases, having money can destroy friendships and create resentments in a family where there didn’t exist before simply because one sibling has more money than another sibling or parent-child isn’t on the same financial playing ground.”

98. “I like good strong words that mean something.”

99. “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

100. “Relationships are like cooking, don’t waste effort on bad recipes!” — Unknown

101. “I am getting nowhere with you and I can’t let you go and I can’t get through.” -Ani DiFranco

102. I’m going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I’ve been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while. — Billy Crystal

103. “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay

104. “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” — Jane Austen; Tweet this!

105. “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” – Edith Hamilton

106. Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself. — Neil Gaiman

107. “Relationship does not live in essence unless you can reliably tell the truth without being prompted.” — Kathryn Hendricks

108. “She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

109. “The best parents get promoted to grandparents.”

110. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale

111. “Money may buy material comforts, but when it comes to happiness, it can’t purchase love and understanding.”

112. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus; Tweet this!

113. “I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around” – Li Na

114. I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou

115. “Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.” -Sam Owen

116. “You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better.” – Pam Leo

117. “It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.” ― Marcel Proust

118. “You have to have enough before you can realise that more isn't going to make you much happier.

119. “I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?” – Nicholas Sparks

120. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” — Henry Winkler

121. If children are the rainbow of life, then grandchildren are the pot of gold.

122. “A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.” — Barbara Cage

123. “Going to see my grandparents was the highlight of my childhood summers. I was doted upon, admired, entertained and overfed. I was never more content and happy.” — Carolyn Anthony

124. “Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos, ‘Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel’

125. “People will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou

126. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche

127. “I am a strong believer that a bad relationship must be brought to an end, no matter how.” – Unknown

128. “Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.” — Voltaire; Tweet this!

129. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” -Henry David Thoreau

130. “If you’re lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.” — Regina Brett

131. “We cannot live without money, but we can live without a bank account.”

132. “We all have that toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them…”― Rodolfo Peon

133. “Money is the worst currency that should be employed in matters concerning the heart.”

134. “Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.” -Tim Ferriss

135. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

136. “The worst sin you can ever commit to yourself is to sit and wait for someone to give you money”

137. “Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort it is.”

138. “Money (or lack thereof) should never be the reason why one partner holds back their love and commitment to another.”

139. I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids. — Robert Brault

140. “Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” — Wiston Auden

141. “Balancing your money is the key to having enough.” — Elizabeth Warren; Tweet this!

142. I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to 'just go to the library and open up an e-mail account—it's free and so simple.' — Scott Douglas

143. “Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I’m in your arms, the world seems small and we’re blessed by the heavens above.” — Laura Spiess

144. “When you chase money to the point of neglecting human connections, lasting bonds fade away as fast as wealth accumulates.”

145. “The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.” — Dave Barry

146. And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl

147. “While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” — Groucho Marx; Tweet this!

148. “Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.” — Art Linkletter

149. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson

150. “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.” — George Monbiot; Tweet this!

151. “I felt an inner peace and softness. My Berlin Wall had been cracked; the toxic relationship between me and that critical voice had been severed.”― Penny De Villiers

152. “When money is associated with love, it can cause resentment and conflict. Love shouldn’t have a price tag.”

153. “This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

154. “Don’t cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

155. “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.” — Seneca; Tweet this!

156. “The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will.” –Robert Tew

157. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu

158. “We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.” – Roy L. Smith

159. “Sometimes you don’t get closure, you just move on.”― Karen Salmansohn

160. “If they do it often, it’s not a mistake; it’s just their behavior.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli

161. “Don’t light yourself on fire trying to brighten someone else’s existence.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

162. “Love sometimes hurts when you’re not with the right person But, don’t give up loving.” – Unknown

163. “The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” ― Tony Robbins

164. “Grandparents are always being told that they are living history to their grandchildren, that they give the children the reassurance of their roots. For me and many grandmothers I have talked to, it works the other way as well. They give us continuity.” — Ruth Goode

165. “I went to war for what we had. You never even laced your boots.” — Unknown

166. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered, or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters” -Amit Ray

167. “The love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

168. Get your kids started on chores.

169. “You can never have too much money.”

170. “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.” – Unknown

171. “We must remember that one day our children are going to follow our example instead of our advice.” – Carolina King

172. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis

173. “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

174. “Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” — Lois Wyse

175. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli

176. “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” — Hussein Nishah

177. “The creative process is lost in a toxic environment. The risk of staying is too great because in it you may never reach your full destiny.” – Germany Kent

178. “A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” – Dionne Warwick

179. “Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.” – Robert Breault

180. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball

181. There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher. - Author: Steve Maraboli

182. “The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.” -Martha Mason

183. Become a member of The Empowered Parents Collective.

184. “You can have money, but if you don't have manners you will loose your money, so have manners to sustain your money.”

185. “Sometimes trying to fix them, breaks you.” – Steve Maraboli

186. “It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.” – George Washington

187. Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother. — Pat Conroy

188. Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'There's a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you. — Margaret Mitchell

189. “When you get into a bad relationship the best thing you can do is get out of it as soon you can.” – Unknown

190. “Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.” — Paulette Bates Alden

191. “Grandparents are the best kind of grownups.”

192. “You don't need money to lead a rich life. Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold” -Unknown

193. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” – Criss Jami, ‘Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile’

194. “Now I believe it when people say love is blind… because I must have been blind to love a person like you.” – Mitch Cuento

195. “People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.” — Edmund Burke

196. “Grandparents are a treasure in the family. Please, take care of your grandparents: love them and let them talk to your children!” — Pope Francis

197. “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.” — Harry S. Truman; Tweet this!

198. “As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.” – Ioan Gruffudd

199. “The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.” -Robbie Fowler

200. “Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people “no darn good any way”. People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn’t hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.” -Henry Cloud

201. “Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.” — Seneca

202. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

203. “Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, 10, and 11.” — Bryna Nelson Paston

204. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”

205. “Never have children, only grandchildren.” — Gore Vidal

206. “Love is worth so much more than money. There are so many people who are filthy rich but have nobody to genuinely love them. Unconditional love is priceless” -Suzy Kassem

207. The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved. - Author: Arthur Guiterman

208. “There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?” – Danny DeVito

209. “As you are now so once were we.” — James Joyce

210. “Grandparents are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.”

211. “If I didn’t care about doing right and didn’t feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”

212. “It’s funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you’d do. It’s terrific.”

213. “Love is a great beautifier.”

214. “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” – Abraham Lincoln

215. “When you get out of it, you realize how toxic it actually was.” – Steve Maraboli

216. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” -Mother Teresa

217. “Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.” -Kemi Sogunle

218. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

219. And real life - it was a fucking asshole. - Author: Jay McLean

220. “Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.”

221. “You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.” — Unknown

222. “Being single is smarter than being in the wrong relationship.” — Unknown

223. “Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I’ve a right to be hurt, I don’t intend to show it.”

224. I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. — Terry Pratchett

225. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson

226. “A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” — Charles and Ann Morse

227. “Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” – American Proverb

228. “Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful; used wrong, it makes a mess!” — Bradley Vinson; Tweet this!

229. “Grandparents are a family’s greatest treasure, the founders of a loving legacy, The greatest storytellers, the keepers of traditions that linger on in cherished memory. Grandparents are the family’s strong foundation. Their very special love sets them apart. Through happiness and sorrow, through their special love and caring, grandparents keep a family close at heart.”

230. The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you're good, I'll help you too, - Author: John Joseph Adams

231. “By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.” – Eileen Kennedy-Moore

232. “Many believe parenting is about controlling children’s behavior and training them to act like adults. I believe that parenting is about controlling my own behavior and acting like an adult myself. Children learn what they live and live what they learn.” – L.R. Knost

233. “Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.”

234. “I don’t have bad relationships with my players. But I don’t get into long conversations with them either.” ― Scotty Bowman

235. Grandparents are voices of the past and the door to the future. They provide us with the wisdom from a lifetime of experience that should never be undervalued.

236. “I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.” — Susan Strasberg

237. “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conqured . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

238. We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did — a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now-vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor. — Richelle E. Goodrich

239. “You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.”― Chinonye J. Chidolue

240. “My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him, I got to know the gentle side of men.” — Sarah Long

241. “Young people need something stable to hang on to—a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.” — Jay Kesler

242. “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy

243. “Through the use of constitutional contortion, the United States has created a national demand for fiat currency. Maintaining the illusion of the dollar's value requires that the monetary authorities avoid reckless increase of the U.S. money supply. Historically speaking, such increases have had disastrous effects upon the purchasing power of the underlying currency. Avoiding a dollar collapse requires a personal faith among the American public in the Fed's willingness and ability to keep the currency in a limited supply.”

244. “Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.” -Carlos Ruiz Zafón

245. “If halfway through disciplining your child, you realize you are overreacting, it is OK to stop. It is OK to tell them ‘sorry’. It is OK to admit that you overreacted and tell them you’ve had a bad day causing a knee-jerk reaction. It doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It is showing your child that you can admit when you’re wrong.”

246. “Just say no to complicated, dead-end, unhealthy, and toxic relationships.” – Stephanie Lahart

247. “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” – Kahlil Gibran

248. “Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.”

249. “I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”

250. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts. — Joan Didion

251. “I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

252. “There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild.” — Edward Fays

253. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent so just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins

254. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum

255. “99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.”

256. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” — Henry C. Link

257. “It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.” — Igor Stravinsky

258. “Sometimes there are things in life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need.” — Don Bolena Jr.

259. “It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.” – Gabrielle Zevin, ‘Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac’

260. “People hold on to the wrong person because they think that person has the potential to be a better person.” — Sonya Parker

261. “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” – Shannon Alder

262. “We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.” — Phyllis Theroux

263. “Money unfortunately leads to Happiness & Sadness in today’s times” – Shivon Thadhani”

264. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

265. “The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”

266. “Wealth and fame are unreliable sources of joy when they come between you and the ones you love.”

267. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” — Theodore Roosevelt

268. “There are many Beth’s in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”

269. “The Seven Social Sins are:

270. You will never look back on life and think, ‘I’ve spent too much time with my grandchildren.’

271. “All aspects of our life; our self-worth, our family dynamics, political choices and even our love lives are touched by the money wound.”

272. “Jo’s eyes sparkled, for it’s always pleasant to be believed in, and a friend’s praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.”

273. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” — Bob Marley

274. “Something magical happens when parents turn into grandparents.”

275. “Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.”

276. “Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” — Doug Larson

277. “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest…” – H.P. Lovecraft

278. “Until you let go of all the toxic people in your life you will never be able to grow into your fullest potential. Let them go so you can grow.” – DLQ

279. “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”

280. “When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.”

281. “Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.” ― Suzy Kassem

282. “If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71 cents left. But if you’ve got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got seventeen grand. There’s a math lesson for you.” — Steven Martin; Tweet this!

283. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”

284. “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.” — Will Rogers; Tweet this!

285. “Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

286. “You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” — Kitty Tsui

287. Kisses, cuddles, cookies, and treats, days spent with our grandparents are always so sweet.

288. “Why is there so much month left at the end the money?”

289. “A drink is shorter than a tale.” — Scottish proverb

290. “Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” — Richard Garnett

291. When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

292. “You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” — Tennessee Williams; Tweet this!

293. “13 things children need more of: unstructured play, nature, hugs, freedom to explore, playtime with parents, laughter, simplicity, belief in their goodness, daily rhythms and rituals, expressed gratitude for who they are, a calm environment, compassion, a shoulder to cry on.”

294. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.” – Unknown

295. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder

296. “You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one, if he’s the right one.”

297. “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” – Steve Maraboli, ‘Life, the Truth, and Being Free’

298. Grandparents are, without a doubt, some of the world’s best educators. — Charles W. Shedd

299. “It’s impossible for a grandmother to understand that few people, and maybe none, will find her grandchild as endearing as she does.” — Janet Lanese

300. “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.” — Lewis Mumford

301. “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

302. “Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.” ― Deepak Chopra

303. “The smart, kind, beautiful child must have got it from their grandparents.”

304. “If you keep pretending you’re not hurt, how can you heal? True love doesn’t expect you to deny you’re in pain.” ― Zara Hairston

305. “Break free of toxic people and relationships, they erode your quality of life.” — Ty Howard

306. “Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.” – Asa Don Brown

307. “I think you will find when your death takes its toll all the money you made will never buy back your soul” — Bob Dylan; Tweet this!

308. “A grandmother is a safe haven.” — Suzette Haden Elgin

309. “Greed makes relationships hard, because everyone wants more than they have.”

310. “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” -Jackie Mason

311. “I am angry nearly every day of my life.”

312. “Children brought up by their grandparents are generally spoiled.”

313. “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

314. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

315. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’

316. “Fortune Without Love (The Sonnet)

317. “Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.” — Mary H. Waldrip

318. “Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” – Jane Nelsen

319. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn 50, you kind of stop giving a s**t what others think. — Liz Fenton

320. “Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” ― Sara Teasdale

321. “I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way.” -R. YS Perez

322. “It’s the character of money to corrupt the ardent, tease the vacillating and curse the indifferent. That way, there seems to be no escape for man from money. You’re damned if you have it and accursed for the lack of it.”

323. “If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it’s time to get up and leave.”― Karen Salmansohn

324. “For there is but one problem – the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

325. “Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.” ― Gene Perret

326. “When it seems the world can’t understand, your grandmother’s there to hold your hand.” — Joyce K. Allen Logan

327. “I’m not ambitious for a splendid fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bead is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures. I am content to see Meg begin humbly, for if I am not mistaken, she will be rich in the possession of a good man’s heart, and that is better than a fortune.”

328. It's special, grandparents and grandchildren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free. — Kate Morton

329. “Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.” — Og Mandino; Tweet this!

330. Blessed are those who spoil and snuggle, hug and hope, pray and pamper, for they shall be called grandparents.

331. “Don’t force together pieces that won’t fit.” — Unknown

332. “The sign of great parenting is not the child’s behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent’s behavior.” – Andy Smithson

333. “They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likable.” — Joan McIntosh

334. “Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.” – Wayne Dyer

335. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”

336. “I don’t intentionally spoil my grandkids. It’s just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.” — Gene Perret

337. “Professionalism makes work relationships healthy, foolishness and dishonesty erodes them.” – Ty Howard

338. “It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else” – Phil McGraw

339. “Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag." — Helen Thomson

340. “All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”

341. “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.” – Harville Hendrix

342. “Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and love.”

343. “You don’t know what’s right or wrong. You’ve been told ‘you’re crazy’ ‘you´re overreacting’ so many times you started to believe that’s the truth.”― Anna Akana

344. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”

345. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” – Shannon L. Alder

346. “Be worthy love, and love will come.”

347. “There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.”― Anthon St. Maarten

348. “I believe I can make all the money I've missed. But I can't regain the time with … family.” -Gucci Mane

349. “A wrong relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.” — Unknown

350. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” — Chris Rock; Tweet this!

351. “I can’t control your behavior, nor do I want that burden…but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.” — Steve Maraboli

352. “No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” – May Sarton

353. “The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different” -Dalai Lama

354. “A bad relationship is like standing on broken glass, if you stay you will keep hurting…If you walk away, you will hurt but eventually you will heal.” — Autumn Kohler

355. “Some of our greatest blessings call us 'grandma' and 'grandpa.'”

356. “Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.” — Fanny Fern

357. “My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle!” — Henry Youngman

358. “If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.” — Brigham Young; Tweet this!

359. “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.”

360. “From the fool and the drunkard you may learn the truth.” — Modern Greek proverb

361. “If you’re giving your all and it’s not enough, you’re probably giving it to the wrong person.” – Unknown

362. “Led by her mother’s hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.”

363. “How can I let you be a priority in my life, when I’m still an option in your life?” – Hussein Nishah

364. “MONEY SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE OF YOUR MINDSET!”

365. “Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.” – Anne Hathaway

366. Madame Lefoux shrugged. I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter. - Author: Gail Carriger

367. “Sometimes, it is not the money in your bank account that solves your problem, but the wisdom in your head.”

368. “The point of parenting is not to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow. Because as they do, so will we.” – Bridgett Miller

369. “Parents know a lot, but grandparents know everything.”

370. “Becoming a grandparent is a second chance. For you have a chance to put to use all the things you learned the first time around and may have made mistakes on. It’s all love and no discipline. There’s no thorn in the rose.” — Joyce Brothers

371. “Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild and or a grandparent.” — Donald A. Norber

372. “Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” – Marianne Faithfull

373. “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” — Deepak Chopra

374. “I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!”

375. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” – C. JoyBell C.

376. “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” — Marcy DeMaree

377. “Love should not make you feel like walking on eggshells.” –Emma Xu

378. Grandparents are like magicians. They can create wonderful memories for their grandchildren out of thin air.

379. “Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it 'opportunity.'” — Charles J. Sykes

380. “Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.” – Jean-Yves Leloup

381. “If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end, low vibrational, relationship or friendship – you won.” — Lalah Delia

382. “Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.”

383. “To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word 'boo.'” — Nicholas Brault

384. “You broke my trust, and that is something that cannot easily be given back at that.” – Unknown

385. “Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.”

386. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”– Sam Keen

387. The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things. — Elizabeth Goudge

388. “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey

389. “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”

390. “Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ”

391. A grandparent is old on the outside, but young on the inside.

392. From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts...and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own...Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. — Christopher Hitchens

393. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

394. “Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated.” – Steve Maraboli

395. “Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”

396. It is better for someone to break your heart once by leaving your life, than for them to stay in your life and break your heart continually. – Terry Mark

397. “There are no words to describe the happiness in holding your baby’s baby.”

398. “Grandfathers are just antique little boys.”

399. “Friends do not cast shade in order to shine. Remember that. I used to put up with my closest friends throwing shade all the time, because, I WANTED THEM TO SHINE. But then I learned that when you give other people, the space to shine at your own expense, you’re slowly committing suicide. True friends mutually desire the other to shine without the need to cast shade or throw the other under a bus.” -C. Joybell C.

400. “You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.” — Charles Orlando

401. “Never do anything for a child that the child can do for himself.” This does not mean that you can never do anything for your child. It does mean that children are shortchanged when they don’t learn how capable they can be when they aren’t pampered.” – Jane Nelsen responding to Rudolf Dreikurs

402. England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.' - Author: Joey Barton

403. “Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.” ― Shannon L. Alder

404. “Sometimes it’s better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.”― Karen Salmansohn

405. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

406. “You never know the love of a grandparent until you become one.”

407. “Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses.” –Tarun Sharma

408. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou

409. “A grandparent has silver in their hair and gold in their heart.”

410. Horror stories? Absolutely. To share? Not on your life. - Author: Tera Lynn Childs

411. “There must come a time when your love for yourself becomes more important than your need to hold onto the pain of your past.” ― Karen Salmansohn

412. “Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after.” — Fred Rogers

413. “Being a grandparent means you can be as silly as you want to be.”

414. “Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.” – C. JoyBell C.

415. “May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you.” –Lalah Delia

416. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox

417. “No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.” -Unknown

418. “Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

419. “So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant."well...yes, but I'd never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on for me.”

420. “I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.” – Cameron Dokey, ‘The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan’

421. “Sometimes you just have to be done. Not Mad, Not Upset, Just DONE.” — Unknown

422. “Balancing your money is the key to having enough.”

423. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” –Gugu Mofokeng

424. “If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you’re going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.” – Curtis Jackson

425. “This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.” ― Lorrie Moore

426. “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

427. “Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!” –Israelmore Ayivor

428. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’” – Joel Osteen,

429. “Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’

430. “Grandfathers know a lot. I know this because I am a grandfather and I feel like I know a lot of things, and frankly I’m rarely wrong.” – Blaine Pardoe

431. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” — Virgil; Tweet this!

432. “If your baby is ‘beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,’ you’re the grandma.” — Teresa Bloomingdale

433. “Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.” ― Golda Meir

434. “Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

435. “Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it’s a bad one?” — Stephanie Perkins

436. “We teach people how to treat us.” – Dr. Phil

437. “Just because someone desires you, does not mean that he values you.” — Julianne Cantarella

438. From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word 'cozy.' That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grandkids pajamas and bathrobes. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

439. “Unconditional positive regard is rarely given by anyone except a grandparent.”

440. “I think it is a bad relationship when you get blamed for the things that make you who you are.” – Unknown

441. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum

442. “There is no reason to believe that a bad relationship can be fixed, sometimes you have to let go.” – Unknown

443. “Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”― John Mark Green

444. “Learn to walk away from those who cause harm to you.” – Malika E Nura

445. “When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.”

446. “If you’re giving love and not receiving it, you’re not in the right relationship. If you’re receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.” — Patti Stanger

447. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”—Guy Finley

448. “I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.” -Judy Garland

449. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” – Jojo Moyes, ‘After You’

450. “That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.” – Robyn Schneider, ‘Extraordinary Means’

451. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.” — Mandy Hale

452. “Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.” — Lexie Saige

453. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”

454. “A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather.” — Angie Papadakis

455. “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” — Joyce Allston

456. “I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” – Woody Allen

457. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault

458. There is no distance that can lessen a grandparent’s love.

459. “No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.”

460. “When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”

461. “There are people who break you down by just being them. They need not do anything. Dissociate.”― Malebo Sephodi

462. “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

463. “A grandma is someone who’s dear in every way. Her smile is like the sunshine that brightens each new day.”

464. “Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.”

465. “Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.” — G. Norman Collie

466. “When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again.” – Angel Moreira

467. Don’t ever, ever underestimate the will of a Grandfather. We’re madmen, we don’t give a damn; we got here before you and they will be here after you. We’ll make enemies, we’ll break laws, we’ll break bones, but you will not mess with the grandchildren! — President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen), The West Wing

468. “A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.” — Lois Wyse

469. “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” – Bill Ayers

470. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli

471. My grandparents suffered through the Depression, World War II, then came home to build the greatest middle class in human history. Lord knows they weren't perfect, but they sure came closest to the American dream. — Max Brooks

472. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” – Faraaz Kazi

473. “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” – Sarah Waters, ‘The Little Stranger’

474. “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” — Pam Brown

475. “Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” — John Green, Paper Towns

476. “The hardest part of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, it’s actually admitting you’re in one.” – Anna Akana

477. “A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

478. “I find it amazing that suburban women work at all, but work they must. For a new factor has been added to the old suburban formula; the need for ever-increasing amounts of cash.”

479. “Material wealth may make your lifestyle comfortable, but money has no power to build strong bonds with others or secure lasting fulfillment in life.”

480. “You fell in love with my flowers but not my roots, so when Autumn arrived you didn’t know what to do.” – Unknown

481. “Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.” — Rita Rudner

482. “I seem to be torn between ‘I wish we’d met earlier’ and ‘I wish we’d never met’.” ― Ahmed Mostafa

483. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature / But beautiful old people are works of art.” — Marjory Barslow-Greenbie

484. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1” — Warren Buffett; Tweet this!

485. “If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. These children are wiser than we are...”

486. When the child you love has a child you love with all that is within you, only then will you know just how grand being a grandparent truly is.

487. “A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.”

488. Y'all ever seen that 'monkeys typing in a room for eternity would eventually create the works of Shakespeare' quote? Well, one time Drew got high and stated, 'Wait, that happened already. We're monkeys, and space is eternity, and we typed, and it happened.' He insisted we put it in the book. - Author: Trae Crowder

489. “You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people.” – William Martin

490. “You gotta stop watering dead plants.” — Unknown

491. “Sometimes we just fall in love with the wrong people.” – Unknown

492. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

493. “Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” — Andy Rooney

494. “I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.”

495. “Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.”― Gift Gugu Mona

496. “Love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”

497. “Grandparents should play the same role in the family as an elder statesman can in the government of a country. They have the experience and knowledge that comes from surviving a great many years of life’s battles and the wisdom, hopefully, to recognize how their grandchildren can benefit from this.” — Geoff Dench

498. “In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.” — Don Marquis

499. “When money will lose its value, it will be easy to lend.”

500. “Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.” — Allan Frome

501. “No spring, nor summer hath such grace. As I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne

502. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” -Ayn Rand

503. “Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.” – Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’

504. “Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”

505. “Conceit spoils the finest genius.”

506. “Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children.” — Ruth Goode

507. “No one who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.” — Suzanne La Follette

508. “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

509. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican

510. “Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question – do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?” — Hedy Lamarr

511. Read Starting By: Jonathan Michael

512. “Money is a needful and precious thing,—and, when well used, a noble thing,—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self- respect and peace.”

513. “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” — Alex Haley

514. “So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn’t always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.”

515. “Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.” — Edward H. Dreschnack

516. “Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.” -Suzy Kassem

517. “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” — Victor Hugo

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519. “Just because you want it doesn’t mean it’s for you. Letting go doesn’t always equate to losing.” — Unknown

520. “I don’t like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

521. “The sincere wish to be good is half the battle.”

522. “In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?” – Sarah Jessica Parker

523. “Because [grandparents] are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.” — President Jimmy Carter

524. “In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her ‘parachute’ — and the other accepts this role — both will fall to the ground.” — Guy Finley

525. “One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” — Joy Hargrove

526. There will never be a day like the day your grandchild was born.

527. “Your relationship should be a safe haven, not a battlefield. The world is hard enough already.” — Unknown

528. I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school. - Author: Katie Leclerc

529. “We are responsible for our own relationships, their success, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.” – Sam Owen

530. “For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.” –Robert Breault

531. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon

532. “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” – Anthony Robbins

533. Grandparents are the perfect blend of love, laughter, and happy memories.

534. “We should fight for our relationships, but if fighting means ripping yourself to shreds and piggybacking all his demons, you need to leave.” –Tara Love

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536. “Relationships are supposed to make you feel good. Relationships are not supposed to make you feel bad.” – Laura Bowers

537. Grandparents hold our hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

538. “Money will not make your marriage any better, nor will it make you any happier. Instead, money would expand your available options in life. More money = more options.”

539. “Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4

540. “Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.” ― Nicholas Sparks

541. “A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.” -Shakti Gawain

542. In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere...in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything... I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything. — Hayao Miyazaki

543. “Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie

544. “Financial concerns should never overpower the importance of human relationships in our lives.”

545. “It is better for someone to break your heart once by leaving your life, than for them to stay in your life and break your heart continually.” -Terry Mark

546. “Every house needs a grandmother in it.” — Louisa May Alcott

547. It seems to me that sometimes the worst parents make the best grandparents. I'm not sure why. Maybe because there is enough of a generational separation that they don't see their grandchildren as an extension of themselves, so their relationship isn't tainted by any self-loathing. And of course, just growing older seems to soften and relax people. — Sarah Silverman

548. “Being alone may scare you, but staying in a bad relationship will damage you.” — Unknown

549. “Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” – Wayne Dyer

550. “If I expect my children to be kind, gentle, compassionate, and respectful, I must be kind, gentle, compassionate, and respectful. Children do not listen to the instruction of hypocrites; it is your actions that guide their actions, not your lectures or punishment.” – Rebecca Eanes

551. “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”

552. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

553. “An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.” — Gene Perret

554. “We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.” ― R.D. Ronald

555. “Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!”

556. “For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister’s life--uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which ‘smell sweet, and blossom in the dust’, the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all. ”

557. “The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” — Sam Levenson

558. “If you’re in a relationship and all you do is cry, you need to stop and ask yourself, are you dating a human or an onion?” ― Karen Salmansohn

559. “When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” — Ogden Nash

560. “The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.” — Sam Levenson

561. “In order to reach your highest potential, it is imperative that you remove all negative people from your life.” ― Germany Kent

562. “Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?” — Donna Lynn Hope

563. “Don’t mind me. I’m as happy as a cricket here.”

564. “Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.”

565. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis

566. “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” — Erma Bombeck

567. Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing — rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. — C.S. Lewis

568. “The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.”

569. “Remember you are not managing an inconvenience. You are raising a human being.” – Kittie Franz

570. “Bad relationships are like a bad investment. No matter how much you put into it, you’ll never get anything out of it. Find someone that’s worth investing in.” — Unknown

571. “Let us be elegant or die!”

572. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber, ‘Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul’

573. “Beauty, youth, good fortune, even love itself, cannot keep care and pain, loss and sorrow, from the most blessed for...into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and sad and dreary.”

574. “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

575. “So often children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, us adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves.” – Rebecca Eanes

576. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway

577. “Sometimes to keep yourself together, You must allow yourself to leave. Even if breaking your own heart, Is what it takes to let you breathe.” –Erin Hanson

578. “Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Great happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships.” — Gary Chapman

579. “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” — Ellen DeGeneres

580. “Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”

581. “Love each other. Love our children. Love our children’s children.”

582. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” – Katherine Mansfield

583. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown, ‘Deception Point’

584. “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.

585. “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.” – Harville Hendrix

586. “The point of parenting is not to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow. Because as they do, so will we.” – Bridgett Miller

587. “Love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”

588. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent so just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins

589. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life.” – Steve Martin

590. “Be worthy love, and love will come.”

591. “No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” – May Sarton

592. “Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’

593. “Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild and or a grandparent.” — Donald A. Norber

594. “Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” — Andy Rooney

595. “I think it is a bad relationship when you get blamed for the things that make you who you are.” – Unknown

596. Read Starting By: Jonathan Michael

597. “I can’t control your behavior, nor do I want that burden…but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.” — Steve Maraboli

598. “Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.” — Allan Frome

599. “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.” — Lewis Mumford

600. “Led by her mother’s hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.”