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The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
These are a few of my favorite things.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words.
Those who simplify the universe
only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Anais Nin
In the long history of the world,
only a few generations have been granted the role
of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
- John F. Kennedy
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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