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Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Related topics: Wisdom
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- 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
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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)
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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