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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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