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O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold. Treasure the companionship of the righteous and eschew all fellowship with the ungodly.
Sometimes you win the battle by simply choosing not to fight it.
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From the author's own musings.
Contribution #4267
I've learned from this life of mine that one cannot be a good friend to me until one ceases to be his own worst enemy.
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Personal writings of the author
Contribution #4224
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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Winnie The Pooh
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Contribution #4201
For every person sitting, I will stand for every elder standing.
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Own Source.
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Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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Quote from a blogger writing about Disney's thinking
Contribution #3873
The first thing you must do is forget that I’m Black. Second, you must never forget that I’m Black.
Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through someone else's eyes.
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King Jr., 'Strength to Love,' 1963
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The Strength Of Love
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Contribution #3742
Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.
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NY Times
"What Are Friends For? A Longer Life"
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Contribution #3695
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be. -
In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.
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Alchemical Wisdom
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Contribution #3458
Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it.
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Good News Bible
Page Proverbs 3:27
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Contribution #3423
"Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal."
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Coyote Healing
Page 219
Published by Bear and Company
, U.S.A.
, March 2003
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Contribution #3355
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
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A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
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who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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Arthur James Balfour, Conservative politician and statesman, 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930
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Contribution #697
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed - that can make of this earth a garden.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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Russell Lynes
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #168
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Joseph Addison
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #158
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
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Epicurus
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #157