Healthy Relationships
 Thought Provoking Ideas 

Thought Provoking Ideas
(Carol James)

• A friend is one who listens without judgment or criticism.
• The greatest gift I can give to another is to love and accept them as they are.
• Treating people with respect and dignity begets being treated with respect and dignity. 
• If I enter a relationship to get, I lose.  If I enter a relationship to give, I get.
• Relationships work best when I always do what is best for me.
• All relationships bear gifts.  I can only see the gifts when I stop thinking and reacting like a victim.
• Trying to please others is a fast track to disappointment.
• It is not my responsibility to make others happy.
• It is not the responsibility of others to make me happy.  
• It is not my responsibility to make decisions for others or to judge the decisions they make.
• All people want the same 3 things: to be in love, to be loved by another and to be happy.
• Relationships work better when appreciation is abundant.
• Being self-full is a wonderful gift to give to another.
• I experience myself as that which I know myself to be by relating to others.