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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
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People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
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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
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
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
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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.
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
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
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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 the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
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 one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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 Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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