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βConnection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our livesβ
β Brene Brown
βLead me O God and thou O Destiny to the goal which you have ordained for meβ
β Cleanthes
βThe single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incompleteβ
β Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
βWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindnessβ
β Jean-Jacques Rousseau
βReal friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare β and precious as a pearl.β
β Taras Shevchenko
βThe purpose of life is to use our gifts in the service of othersβ
β Robin Sharma
βA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of historyβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.β
β Hermann Hesse
βLife is nothing without friendshipβ
β Marcus Tullius Cicero
βThe first duty of love is to listenβ
β Paul Tillich
βWe cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but changeβ
β Sheryl Sandberg
βA friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.β
β William Shakespeare
βThe soul is healed by being with childrenβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.β
β Khalil Gibran
βIf you judge people, you have no time to love them.β
β Mother Teresa
βGood friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.β
β Mark Twain
βHe who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.β
β Ali ibn Abi Talib
βIf the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nailβ
β Abraham Maslow
βFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a personβ
β George Eliot
βIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinkingβ
β Haruki Murakami
βIt is the little things citizens do that is what will make the difference my little thing is planting treesβ
β Wangari Maathai
βFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.β
β Jean de La Fontaine
βWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.β
βThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformedβ
β Carl Jung
βIf you wish to be loved, love.β
β Epictetus
βA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βWe can do hard thingsβ
β Glennon Doyle
βI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.β
β Elbert Hubbard
βThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.β
β Thomas Aquinas
βWear a friend as a coat against the storm.β
β Thiruvalluvar
βThe universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soulβ
β Chrysippus
βLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βYou cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equalityβ
β Logan Pearsall Smith
βThe quality of your life is the quality of your relationshipsβ
β Tony Robbins
βLife begins at the end of your comfort zoneβ
β Neale Donald Walsch
βDo not walk behind me I may not lead do not walk in front of me I may not follow just walk beside me and be my friendβ
β Albert Camus
βBe slow in choosing a friend slower in changingβ
β Benjamin Franklin
βA life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great onesβ
β Roald Dahl
βA person is a person no matter how smallβ
β Dr Seuss
βLet us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.β
β Marcel Proust
βThe only normal people are the ones you do not know very wellβ
β Alfred Adler
βI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.β
β Walt Whitman
βIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.β
β Albert Einstein
βAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beastβ
β Buddha
βFriendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.β
β Aristotle
βFriendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with anotherβ
β George Santayana
βWithout friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goodsβ
βWhat cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the selfβ
β John Bowlby
βAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with successβ
β Oscar Wilde
βCan miles truly separate you from friends if you want to be with someone you love you are already thereβ
β Richard Bach
βThe richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms work love and playβ
β Erik Erikson
βNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfactionβ
β E.O. Wilson
βIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βFriendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of lonelinessβ
β Dag Hammarskjold
βIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friendsβ
β J.K. Rowling
βYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.β
β Jim Rohn
βMy friends are my estate.β
β Emily Dickinson
βThe earth is what we all have in commonβ
β Wendell Berry
βEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picturesβ
β Henry Ward Beecher
βYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other peopleβ
β Dale Carnegie
βA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.β
β Saint Jerome
βIn prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friendsβ
β John Churton Collins
βGrowth begins when we start to accept our own weaknessβ
β Jean Vanier
βA true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly crackedβ
β David Tyson
βThe only way to have a friend is to be one.β
βIt is not that I am mad it is only that my head is different from yoursβ
β Diogenes
βWe forfeit three quarters of ourselves in order to be like other peopleβ
β Arthur Schopenhauer
βThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselvesβ
β Thomas Merton
βThe curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can changeβ
β Carl Rogers
βYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.β
β Wayne Dyer
βA day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.β
β Winnie the Pooh
βFortune favors the boldβ
β Virgil
βThe better part of ones life consists of friendshipsβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βHave no friends not equal to yourself.β
β Confucius
βWe have two ears and one mouth so we should listen more than we sayβ
β Zeno of Citium
βShe is a friend of my mind she gather me man the pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right orderβ
β Toni Morrison
βListen to the mustnts child listen to the donts listen to the shouldnts the impossibles the wonts then listen to me anything can happenβ
β Shel Silverstein
βA book is a dream that you hold in your handβ
β Neil Gaiman
βI find that friendship is like wine raw when new ripened with ageβ
β Thomas Jefferson
βThe best mirror is an old friendβ
β George Herbert
βA friend in need is a friend indeedβ
β Sophocles
βA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthdayβ
β Erma Bombeck
βYour friend is your needs answeredβ
βThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedβ
β Adam Grant
βGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health but in men on a well-formed characterβ
β Democritus
βMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.β
βA companion's words of persuasion are effective.β
β Homer
βThe bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.β
β William Blake
βNo distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.β
β Robert Southey
βBe with those who help your beingβ
β Rumi
βOf all the means to ensure happiness the most important is the acquisition of friendsβ
β Epicurus
βOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can goβ
β T.S. Eliot
βThe endearing elegance of female friendshipβ
β Samuel Johnson
βI had a lovers quarrel with the worldβ
β Robert Frost
βOne who looks for a friend without faults will have none.β
β Hasidic Proverb
βThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.β
β Leo Tolstoy
βThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing ofβ
β Blaise Pascal
βFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.β
β Woodrow Wilson
βYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time withβ
βWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the lightβ
β Helen Keller
βFriendship is a sheltering treeβ
β Samuel Taylor Coleridge
βA true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.β
β Quintus Ennius
βGratitude unlocks the fullness of lifeβ
β Melody Beattie
βIn the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friendsβ
β Martin Luther King Jr
βThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insaneβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from oneselfβ
β Parker Palmer
βYou yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affectionβ
β Sharon Salzberg
βA faithful friend is the medicine of life.β
βLife has no blessing like a prudent friend.β
β Euripides
βHave a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.β
β Charles Dickens
βEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole skyβ
β Hafiz
βSome people go to priests others to poetry I to my friendsβ
β Virginia Woolf
βYou can love someone and still choose to say goodbyeβ
β Tara Westover
βIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our ownβ
β Charlotte Bronte
βLife is nothing without friendship.β
β Cicero
βHave no friends not equal to yourselfβ
βA doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemyβ
β Aesop
βThe quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.β
βI no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friendsβ
βThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdomβ
β Isaac Asimov
βA stranger is just a friend I have not met yetβ
β Will Rogers
βWhen they go low we go highβ
β Michelle Obama
βThe truth is everyone is going to hurt you you just have to find the ones worth suffering forβ
β Bob Marley
βFriendship is the marriage of the soul.β
β Voltaire
βThe soul is healed by being with children.β
βTo love is to recognize yourself in anotherβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βIn everyone life at some time our inner fire goes out and a friend fans it into flame againβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeksβ
β John Muir
βThe only way to have a friend is to be oneβ
βFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.β
βA friend is, as it were, a second self.β
βLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.β
β Dalai Lama
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to knowβ
β Pema Chodron
βOne friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possibleβ
β Henry Brooks Adams
βThe greatest thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of lovingβ
β Fred Rogers
βWhen two people relate to each other authentically the between is where god dwellsβ
β Martin Buber
βBe impeccable with your word speak with integrityβ
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βThe power plant does not have energy it generates energyβ
β Brendon Burchard
βLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.β
β Tennessee Claflin
βHave friends. 'Tis a second existence.β
β Baltasar GraciΓ‘n
βAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.β
βNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βTrue friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evilsβ
β Baltasar Gracian
βIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.β
βThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourselfβ
β Thales
βIt is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from anotherβ
β Nelson Mandela
βIf you have one true friend you have more than your shareβ
β Thomas Fuller
βThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty made bearable by friendsβ
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.β
βI may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to beβ
β Douglas Adams
βGood friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal lifeβ
βA leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done they will say we did it ourselvesβ
β Lao Tzu
βA team is not a group of people that work together a team is a group of people that trust each otherβ
β Simon Sinek
βNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experiencedβ
β David Attenborough
βMany people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heartβ
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.β
βWithout friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.β
βFor the world is only the desert which needs the oasis of friendshipβ
β Hannah Arendt
βNo man is free who is not master of himselfβ
βThe most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attentionβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βEach friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arriveβ
β Anais Nin
βMy friends are my estateβ
βA faithful friend is the medicine of lifeβ
β Ovid
βWear a friend as a garment that fits closely, not loosely.β
βFriendship is one mind in two bodies.β
β Mencius
βStrength lies in differences not in similaritiesβ
β Stephen Covey
βBetween friends there is no need of justice.β
βAll flourishing is mutualβ
β Robin Wall Kimmerer
βOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understoodβ
β Seneca
βFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.β
βBe courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well triedβ
β George Washington
βIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.β
βFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world togetherβ
βTrue friends stab you in the front.β
βThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.β
β Jane Austen
βRarely if ever are any of us healed in isolation healing is an act of communionβ
β bell hooks
βI have seen what a laugh can do it can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable even hopefulβ
β Bob Hope
βThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanityβ
βVulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthinessβ
βWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.β
βStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossibleβ
β Francis of Assisi
βIf you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was Iβ
β Michel de Montaigne
βStay is a charming word in a friends vocabularyβ
β Louisa May Alcott
βToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening earβ
β Leo Buscaglia
βMany people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.β
βNo one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die awayβ
β Terry Pratchett
βFriends are as companions on a journey who ought to aid each otherβ
β Pythagoras
βA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of natureβ
βWherever you are and whatever you do be in loveβ
βThe good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrowβ
β Alan Alda
βIt is a joy to be hidden and disaster not to be foundβ
β Donald Winnicott
βOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.β
βLet us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossomβ
βThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friendsβ
βFriendship doubles joys and halves griefsβ
β Francis Bacon
βThe only thing that is constant is changeβ
β Heraclitus
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughβ
β Maya Angelou
βSilence is a source of great strength in friendship.β
βIf you go looking for a friend you will find them very scarce if you go out to be a friend you will find them everywhereβ
β Zig Ziglar
βFriendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunityβ
βI do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much betterβ
β Plutarch
βIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.β
βThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformityβ
β Rollo May
βHe who has begun has half done dare to be wise beginβ
β Horace
βYou do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friendsβ
β Desmond Tutu
βWe are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff outβ
β Ray Bradbury
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesβ
β Viktor Frankl
βThe most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peopleβ
β Theodore Roosevelt
βFriendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.β
β C.S. Lewis
βLots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with youβ
β Oprah Winfrey
βIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with themβ
β Unknown
βA friend in power is a friend lostβ
β William Hazlitt
βIf you judge people you have no time to love themβ
βThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the churchβ
β Tertullian
βProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them.β
β Publilius Syrus
βBooks are a uniquely portable magicβ
β Stephen King
βA friend to all is a friend to none.β
βBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.β
β Plato
βA wise man proportions his belief to the evidenceβ
β David Hume
βWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselvesβ
β Angeles Arrien
βOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.β
βWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who have shared our painβ
β Henri Nouwen
βWe are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to beβ
β Kurt Vonnegut
βA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies the man who never reads lives only oneβ
β George R.R. Martin
βA true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly and takes all patientlyβ
β William Penn
βWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveβ
β Winston Churchill
βA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves youβ
βThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.β
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeβ
β Mary Oliver
βIt is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.β
βWhat is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still livesβ
β Rupi Kaur
βWaste no more time arguing about what a good friend should be. Be one.β
βA friend is as it were a second selfβ
βThink where glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friendsβ
β William Butler Yeats
βA true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care to acquireβ
β La Rochefoucauld
βThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.β
βThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendshipβ
βThe essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.β
β David Storey
βFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing itβ
β Thomas More
βWherever you go there you areβ
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former selfβ
β Ernest Hemingway
βFriends are Gods way of taking care of usβ
βThe deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separatenessβ
β Gabriel Marcel
βIt is easy enough to be friendly to ones friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.β
βA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourselfβ
β Jim Morrison
βIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of youβ
β Deepak Chopra
βWhen we love we always strive to become better than we are when we strive to become better everything around us becomes better tooβ
β Paulo Coelho
βTrue friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.β
βBe slow to fall into friendship but when you are in continue firm and constantβ
β Socrates
βThe most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.β
βFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.β
βIn the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let goβ
β Jack Kornfield
βGo often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.β
βThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friendβ
βOld friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.β
β John Selden
βIf you have one true friend, you have more than your share.β
βYou become responsible forever for what you have tamed.β
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βYou need to learn how to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every dayβ
β Elizabeth Gilbert
βI define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.β
βFriendship is the marriage of souls and this marriage is subject to divorceβ
βPeople dont care how much you know until they know how much you careβ
β John Maxwell
βAlthough the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves usβ
β Irvin Yalom
βI do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there firstβ
β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
βThe greatest sweetness of existence is friendshipβ
β Joseph Addison
βOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relativesβ
βFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.β
βThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.β
βWhen we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.β
βWisdom cannot be imparted wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishnessβ
βTo like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.β
β Sallust
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityβ
β Simone Weil
βMy religion is very simple my religion is kindnessβ
βRare as true love is true friendship is rarer stillβ
βWe cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.β
β James Boswell
βThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudeβ
β William James
βThe friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays awayβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βBe slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.β
βA true friend stabs you in the front.β
βI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy themβ
β John Stuart Mill
βWhen a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.β
βIt is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriagesβ
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic communityβ
β Aldo Leopold
βThe face of the other instructs meβ
β Emmanuel Levinas
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsβ
β Rachel Carson
βLots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.β
βWithout a certain amount of laziness you do not know how to love your friendsβ
β Andre Maurois
βI have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.β
βIf you go looking for a friend, you are going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you will find them everywhere.β
βOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measureβ
β Marianne Williamson
βI have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giverβ
βImmature love says I love you because I need you mature love says I need you because I love youβ
β Erich Fromm
βWhat is food to one man is bitter poison to othersβ
β Lucretius
βBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleβ
βThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one pageβ
β Augustine of Hippo
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