Qutations random
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves
- Victor Hugo -
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne
- Samuel Johnson -
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions
- Samuel Johnson -
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne
- Samuel Johnson -
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness
- Anatole France -
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved
- George Sand -
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness
- George Sand -
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive
- Havelock Ellis -
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship
- Amelia Earhart -
The roses of love glad the garden of life.
- Lord Byron -
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live
- Robert A Heinlein -
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
- Robert A Heinlein -
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
- Robert A Heinlein -
Love is more than a noun \ it is a verb; it is more than a feeling \ it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing
- William Arthur Ward -
Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell
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A heart that loves is always young
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Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back! Don’t expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.
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True love begins when nothing is expected in return.
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A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.
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Success in love consists not so much in finding the one person who can make you happy, as in escaping the many who could make you miserable.
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If you love something, set it free. If it returns, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, it wasn’t yours to begin with.
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
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I miss you a little, I guess you could say.... a little too much, a little too often, a little more every day.
- John Michael Montgomery -
You’ve had my heart since hello. Nothing will ever change that. Not distance, not time, not space. Nothing will ever take my heart away from you.
- Jerry Maguire -
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Some have forever, some just a day. Love isn’t something you measure. Nothing’s forever vv forever is a lie. All we have is between hello and good-bye.
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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
- Robert Southey -
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love
- Dr Seuss -
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr Seuss -
Love? It’s kind of complicated, but I’ll tell you this vv the second you’re willing to make yourself miserable to make someone else happy, that’s love right there
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To get a woman’s heart, a man must first use his own.
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A person may be in love with someone untill the end of time, but if that person doesn’t tell their feelings of love, it will just be another person living a dream, lost of true love.
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Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- ill Durant -
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller -
To love is to act.
- Victor Hugo -
he most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- Victor Hugo -
Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
- Sacha Guitry -
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
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Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
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Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- Henry Louis Mencken -
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
- Allen Ginsberg -
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
- Louisa May Alcott -
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
- Louisa May Alcott -
Be worthy love, and love will come.
- Louisa May Alcott -
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier -
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- La Fontaine -
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Thomas Fuller -
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
- Thomas Fuller -
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
- Henry Drummond -
I heard someone whisper your name, but when I turned around to see who it was, I was alone. Then I realized that it was my heart telling me that I miss you.
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Missing someone is your heart’s way of reminding you that you love him.
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It’s not my fault I love you, it’s yours.
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True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
- Edmund Spenser -
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie -
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie -
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau -
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
- Lord Byron -
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo -
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- Jane Austen -
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen -
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
- Edward Young -
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
- Agnes Repplier -
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton -
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau -
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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When I am alone I am happy.
- William Carlos Williams -
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
- Voltaire -
ppiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant it self on the ground before it walks over the moon.
- Ralph Wando Emerson -
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire -
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.
- Aldous Huxley -
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand -
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
- George Sand -
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
- George Sand -
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus -
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus -
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
-William Cowper -
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer -
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer -
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer -
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer -
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me
- Albert Schweitzer - -
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life
- Albert Schweitzer -
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer -
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not jump with them; I would be at the bottom to catch them.
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It’s much better for our friends for ourselves if we drop our expectations and illusions, and accept them all just the way they are.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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Fiendship cannot be borrowed. There is not shop where one can buy it. It is a connection between two people that is so giving.
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
--- Albert Camus ---
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
--- Thomas Hardy ---
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
--- Mark Twain ---
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
--- Samuel Johnson ---
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
--- Alexandre Dumas ---
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
--- Alexandre Dumas ---
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship
- Amelia Earhart -
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
- Pam Brown -
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A Heinlein -
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- Will Durant -
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- Henry Louis Mencken -
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
- John Adams -
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
- Thomas Fuller -
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
- Eskimo -
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one’s work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
- Albert Camus -
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren -
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
- Benjamin Franklin -
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
- Martin Luther -
It’s one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
- Igor Stravinsky -
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Erich Fromm -
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- Balzac -
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Balzac -
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- Balzac -
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- Balzac -
A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
- Balzac -
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
- Charles Dickens -
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- Victor Hugo -
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
- Dr Seuss -
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- Will Durant -
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- Samuel Johnson -
It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
- John Lennon -
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.
- Voltaire -
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire -
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
- Denis Diderot -
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- Balzac -
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller -
Always borrow money from a pessimist; they don’t expect to be paid back
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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
- Anatole France -
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
- Benjamin Franklin -
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
- Benjamin Franklin -
Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton -
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
- Helen Keller -
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
- Thomas Fuller -
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus-
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
- Voltaire -
Il vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable plutôt que de condamner un innocent.
- Voltaire -
Forgive those who have hurt you.
- Les Brown -
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain -
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer -
If you cannot lift the load off another’s back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
- Frank Tyger -
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
- Pam Brown -
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown -
Cherish the time you have, and the memories you share vv being friends with someone is not an opportunity but a sweet responsibility.
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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities
- William Arthur Ward -
A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.
- William Arthur Ward -
Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.
- William Arthur Ward -
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.
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Friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Everyone hears what you have to say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
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There are no such things as strangers, only friends that we have not yet met.
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Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
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Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach -
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
- Robert Southey -
Never explain; your real friends don’t need it, and your enenmys won’t believe you anyways.
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If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn’t follow, I’d be the one at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
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We are all angles with one wing, and we must embrace each other to learn to fly.
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A friend is like the north star, you look to them when you lose your way.
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The question is not would you die for a friend, but do you have a friend worth dying for?
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Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile, somewhere there’s someone who finds your presence worthwhile, so when you are lonely, sad and blue, remember there is someone, somewhere thinking of you.
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It’s really amazing when two stranges become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only few will leave footprints in your heart
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If I had a star for everytime you made me smile, I’d have the whole evening sky in the palm of my hand.
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Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.
- Angela Chase -
A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand and touches your heart
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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
- Robert Southey -
Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry
- Dr Seuss -
I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone
- Dr Seuss -
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
- Will Durant -
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller -
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller -
In order to have friends, you must first be one
-Elbert Hubbard -
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard -
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 -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
- Louisa May Alcott -
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
- Louisa May Alcott -
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Burton -
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- La Fontaine -
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
- Thomas Fuller -
He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller -
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
- Thomas Fuller -
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
- Thomas Fuller -
A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart
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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.
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Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I’m getting richer and richer.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
- Edward Young -
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 -
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson -
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- Samuel Johnson -
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone
- Walter Scott -
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus -
Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears
- John Lennon -
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
- Voltaire -
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
- Voltaire -
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher
- Elbert Hubbard -
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
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A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -
It’s okay for students to ask dumb questions; they’re easier to handle than dumb mistakes.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
- Will Durant -
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance
- Will Durant -
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller -
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
- Victor Hugo -
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
- Alfred Adler -
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
- Elbert Hubbard -
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
- John Adams -
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- John Adams -
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
- Walter Lippmann -
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
- Alexandre Dumas -
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- Walter Scott -
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
- Albert Camus -
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
- Aldous Huxley -
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France -
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France -
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
- Anatole France -
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart -
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
- Frank Tyger -
When you like your work every day is a holiday.
- Frank Tyger-
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
- William James -
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
- Igor Stravinsky -
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- Thomas Edison -
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- William James -
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
- Emile Zola -
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.
- Frank Tyger-
No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.
- Richard Strauss -
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Paul Tournier -
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
- Les Brown -
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
- T. E. Lawrence -
You cannot say that you are happy when you don’t win.
- Arsene Wenger -
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- Douglas MacArthur -
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur -
If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.
- Frank Tyger -
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
- William Arthur Ward -
The speed of time is one second per second
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin -
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx -
Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
- Victor Hugo -
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
- Elbert Hubbard -
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Will Durant -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- John Adams -
My mind’s my kingdom.
- Francis Quarles -
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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