From the Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book (p.277) regarding relationships we read:
“Taking the initiative and consulting in private are good not only for resolving trespasses in human relationships (Matthew 18:15) but impasses, too. The withholding of key communications can be even more serious than withholding one’s material substance. Food and raiment can sometimes be supplied by others, but the needed spiritual substance is often not available elsewhere.” (Experience, p. 74.)
We have an obligation to work out impasses as well as trespasses in interpersonal relationships. (Press Forward, p. 88.)
If one tends to regard others as functions and not as individual entities, he will seek as few lasting and obligating relationships as possible. Doing this, ironically, ensures less and less happiness and even further deterioration in the total human environment. Yet, today, more and more people seek to travel through life selfishly, as unencumbered and uncommitted as possible. (We Talk of Christ p.74)
Calmness conserves energy as well as relationships. (Endure, p. 115.)
We [should] admit that if we were to die today, we would be genuinely missed. Perhaps parliaments would not praise us, but no human circle is so small that it does not touch another, and another (Ensign, November 1976, p. 14. . . This link is a great read. . . such thoughts are timeless! k)
