* Quotes *

“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” - T.S. Eliot

“To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.” - Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and just be my friend.” - Albert Camus

“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to it’s original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There is nothing permanent except change.” - Haraclitus

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.” - Seneca

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.” - Gandhi

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” - Confucius

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” - La Fontaine

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.” - Horace Smith

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” - Mother Teresa

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” - Robert Frost

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.” - William James

“A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.” - Lynwood L. Giacomini

“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” - Francois Rochefoucauld

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is Love.” - Sophocles

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” - Henry David Thoreau

“All learning has an emotional base.” - Plato

“As a man is, so he sees.” - William Blake

“We love without reason, and without reason we hate.” - Jean-Francois Regnard

“Things are beautiful if you love them.” - Jean Anouilh

“I breathed a song into the air, it fell to the earth, I know not where...and the song from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps as the confidence of their help.” - Epicurus

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” - Malcolm Forbes

“The unnatural - that too is natural.” - Goethe

“I am a part of all that I have met.” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” - Cicero

“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.” - Goethe

“Survival, I know, is to begin again.” - Judy Collins

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” - Pythagoras

“Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” - John F. Kennedy

“Not ignorances, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.” - Alfred North Whitehead

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” - La Rochefoucauld

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” - Marcus Antonius

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” - William Hazlitt

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” - Persian Saying

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” - Adlai Stevenson

“If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” - Edger W. Howe

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” - Robert Frost

“Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.” - Erich Fromm

“Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.” - Homer

“Nothing in life is to be feard it is only to be understood.” - Marie Curie

“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.” - Bovee

”We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” - Rutherford D. Rogers

“It is hope which maintains most of mankind.” - Sophocles

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.” - Samuel Coleridge

“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.” - Tacitus

“Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.” - Ovid

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” - Goethe

“You can never plan the future by the past.” - Edmund Burke

“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.” - Longfellow

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?” - Euripides

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by begining something else.” - John Irving

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard

“Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.” - De Musset

“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to it’s original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“He whom love touches not walks in darkness.” - Plato

“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” - G.C. Lichtenberg

“If you wish to be loved, love.” - Seneca

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things that you don’t get that you don’t want.” - Oscar Wilde

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” - Alfred Tennyson

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Elliot

“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” - Thackeray

“No man is useless while he has a friend.” - Robert L. Stevenson

“Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.” - Samuel Lover

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” - Elizabeth Bibesco

“The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one; yet the light of the bright world dies, with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies, when love is done.” - Bourdillon

“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” - Albert Camus

“Man is what he believes.” - Chekhov

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” - Oscar Wilde

“They can because they think they can.” - Vergil

“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” - Plato

“Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor.” - Seneca

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.” - Bovee

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.” - Montaigne

“To know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” - Henry David Thoreau

“It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give.” - Seneca


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