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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
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The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
- Lao Tzu
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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)
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
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