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One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
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
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- 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
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
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
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
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
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
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
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
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
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
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