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Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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 real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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 one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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