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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily,
adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn |
George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. |
Just for now
I am treating you as my friend, asking you
to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield |
“Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.” - Hannah Arrendt
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“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” - Unknown
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“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.” - Unknown
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"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears". ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~Norman Cousins |
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
~Robert Cody |
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
--Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones |
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~ Robert McCloskey |
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mohandas Gandhi
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ~Nolan Bushnell
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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
~Angela Monet |
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
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a happy life is just a string of happy moments.
but most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life. Abraham-Hicks |
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love-- the first fluttering of its silken wings--the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or destroy. |
The person who wants the rose
must respect the thorn. Persian proverb |
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson |
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