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This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
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All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
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
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
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
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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 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.
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