The one serious conviction that a man should have by Nicholas Murray Butler

The one serious conviction that a man should have
by Nicholas Murray Butler

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

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

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

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)

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

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

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 like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone

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

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

Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling

My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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]

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

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

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

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)

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The one serious conviction that a man should have
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