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One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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 is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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.
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
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
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
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
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