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Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Holding-on does not have to be a desperate
teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grit ruins clam chowder,
but enhances your character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is a god in ruins.
When men are innocent, life shall be longer,
and shall pass into the immortal,
as gently as we awake from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
Day by day we should weigh what we have
granted to the spirit of the world
against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus,
in thought and especially in deed.
- Albert Schweitzer
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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