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Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Related topics: Cynical Religion
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
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An evil deed is not redeemed
by an evil deed in retaliation.
- Coretta Scott King (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Day by day we should weigh what we have
granted to the spirit of the world
against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus,
in thought and especially in deed.
- Albert Schweitzer
We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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