When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.
My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another
Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.
No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.
Teasing is often healthy and fun, not to mention an important part of interpersonal and individual development. But when it's abused, 'just kidding' contains a disturbing logic: If I didn't mean it, it didn't happen.
