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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
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
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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.
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
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
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
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
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
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
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