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Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain
that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got
a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- 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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
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)
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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 friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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