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However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
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Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unlike presidential administrations,
problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
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
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
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
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
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