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One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
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Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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