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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
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Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
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The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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