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Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Related topics: Wisdom
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop
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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance upon thee.
- Epictetus
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Lots of people want 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.
- Oprah Winfrey
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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