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The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood,
only they are not rightly disposed.
- Henry David Thoreau
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If the human race wishes to have a
prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a
peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill
For me, the most powerful expressions of true Christianity
in this material world are an unconditional love of all humans,
and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all
who are sick, infirm, or troubled -
as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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 before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
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
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
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
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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