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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Related topics: Love Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Romantic Philosophy
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
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
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- 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
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
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
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
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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 friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
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 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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
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 free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
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
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.
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
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