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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
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
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
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
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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