Friends Quotes - Page 33

• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Should, Ceremony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Friend, Delight, World

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Running, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 08, 2012

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• Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

  Byron Katie

  Done, World

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• Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Swings, Views, Tree

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• A friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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• Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Campaigns, Tents

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

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• If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Movie, Past, Reality

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• Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  True Friend, Giving, Receiving

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• Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

  Martha Beck

  Business, Joy, Tasks

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Friendship, Heart

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Marriage, Needs

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Firsts, Revolution

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Heart, Winning

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.83, Library of America

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• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  Natalie Wood

  Way, Excited, Feels

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• Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teacher, Pleasure, Advantage

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Kindness, Return

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Freedom, War, Fighting

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

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• none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Soul, Suffering, Unhappy

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• Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Woe, Pages, Recompense

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.330

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• Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

  Francois Fenelon

  Real, Joy, Faithful

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• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Powerful, Prayer, Father

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.

  Robert Adams

  Happiness, Joy, Trying

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• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Karma, Pride, Thinking

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