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Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship,
of affection, of friendly intercourse,
and I am not made of stone or iron,
so I cannot miss these things without feeling,
as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need.
I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem,
of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- 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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
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
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
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