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Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Autobiographies are only as useful
as the lives you read about and analyze
may suggest to you something that
you may find useful in your own journey through life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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
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]
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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