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One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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 is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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 before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- 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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
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]
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
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
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
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
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
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
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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)
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
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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