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When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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 friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
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 born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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 only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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)
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
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
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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
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
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- 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
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- 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
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
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