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Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I hope that you walk around the corner
and you get very surprised.
- Miranda Richardson
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
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
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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