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We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Inspirational Generosity
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
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If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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