Quote:	Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
Author:	Dale Dauten
Source:	His nationally syndicated column which appeared in the 4/16/98 Arizona Republic.

Quote:	I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Author:	William Penn
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Author:	Stephen Covey
Source:	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quote:	Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Author:	Stephen Covey
Source:	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quote:	Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Author:	Stephen Covey
Source:	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quote:	The Art of Peace begins with you...Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all you encounter.
Author:	Morihei Ueshiba
Source:	The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba

Quote:	Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Author:	Norman Vincent Peale
Source:	Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Quote:	Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life

Quote:	Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.
Author:	Christopher Bryant
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Author:	Mother Teresa
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Author:	Victor Borge
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
Author:	Tom Hannah
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Author:	John Donne
Source:	Body, Mind, and Spirit: Daily Meditations edited by Kristen Ison

Quote:	No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
Author:	Ruth Sheppard
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Author:	Dale Carnegie
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Author:	Abigail Van Buren
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook

Quote:	Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook

Quote:	Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook

Quote:	We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook

Quote:	A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone--but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Author:	Walter Anderson
Source:	The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson

Quote:	Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Author:	Walter Anderson
Source:	The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson

Quote:	Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Author:	Grenville Kleiser
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Author:	Harvey Mackay
Source:	Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column

Quote:	Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.
Author:	Harvey Mackay
Source:	Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column

Quote:	Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Author:	Samuel Butler
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Author:	Samuel Butler
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Author:	Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all--friends?
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Author:	Horace
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	The highest compact we can make with our fellow is,--"Let there be truth between us two forever more."
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Author:	Xenophon
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
Author:	Benjamin Franklin
Source:	Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall

Quote:	What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Author:	Epicetus
Source:	Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh

Quote:	We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Author:	Thomas Moore, PhD, in the essay "Embracing the Everyday"
Source:	Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	We live by admiration, hope and love.
Author:	William Wordsworth
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Quote:	Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	I am for frank explanations with friends in cases of affronts. They sometimes save a perishing friendship or place it on a firmer basis than before. But secret discontent must always end badly.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Author:
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Quote:	If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair... To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living!
Author:	Amanda Bradley
Source:	Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World by Adair Lara

Quote:	The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Quote:	Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Quote:	If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
Author:	Chinese proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Author:	Francis Bacon
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Fair words never hurt the tongue.
Author:	George Chapman
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	They do not love that do not show their love.
Author:	William Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen from Verona)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Love all, trust a few; Do wrong to none.
Author:	William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Author:	William Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Author:	William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.
Author:	William Shakespeare (King Richard II)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Things past redress are now with me past care.
Author:	William Shakespeare (King Richard II)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I like to work out. I like to play ball. I like to spend time with my friends. I like to make myself better every day. I like to try to learn. It doesn't take money to do that.
Author:	Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns player
Source:	"Stevie Wonder" by Brian Bujdos, an article in the April 1998 issue of FastBreak magazine

Quote:	A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	We must have infinite faith in each other.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.
Author:	Krishnamurti
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
Author:	English proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
Author:	Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, from The Maid's Tragedy
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Author:	George Eliot
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	Look at people; recognize them, accept them as they are, without wanting to change them.
Author:	Helen Beginton
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
Author:	Goodman Ace
Source:	The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Author:	Plato
Source:	The Republic by Plato

Quote:	My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again--this is the brave and happy life.
Author:	J.E. Buchrose
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
Author:	John Sutherland Bonnell
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Author:	Charles de Montesquieu
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
Author:	William Shakespeare, from King Henry VI
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.
Author:	Hilaire Belloc
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Author:	Plato
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
Author:	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Author:	Margaret Thatcher
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
Author:	Indian (Tamil) proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.
Author:	German proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	The anger of the prudent never shows.
Author:	Burmese proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	We all boil at different degrees.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation

Quote:	Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
Author:	Japanese proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	Love is a verb.
Author:	Clare Boothe Luce
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.
Author:	Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Source:	The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Quote:	"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore."
Author:	Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Source:	The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Quote:	A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Author:	Joseph Joubert
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.'
Author:	Lord Byron
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Work and love--these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Author:	Theodor Reik
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	True happiness...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Author:	Joseph Addison
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	One rotten apple spoils the other.
Author:	Yiddish proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	Homogeneity makes for healthy milk but anemic friendships. We need relationships that cross culturally imposed lines to enlarge our hearts and expand our vistas.
Author:	Dan Schmidt
Source:	"Paul & Friends" by Dan Schmidt in the July/August 1998 issue of Discipleship Journal

Quote:	There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Author:	Sophia Loren
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Author:	Jeanne Moreau
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	Joys divided are increased.
Author:	Josiah Gilbert Holland
Source:	Franklin Seasons Planner, September 8, 1993

Quote:	A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Author:	William Penn
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
Author:	William Penn
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into conciousness the shadow side of our lives. Coversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.
Author:	Elizabeth O'Connor
Source:	Our Many Selves: A Handbook for Self-Discovery by Elizabeth O'Connor

Quote:	The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Author:	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source:	Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker

Quote:	Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today.
Author:	Wilfred A. Peterson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Author:	Georgia O'Keefe
Source:	The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron

Quote:	You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Author:	Lydia M. Child
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.
Author:	Mme. de Stael
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Author:	Indira Gandhi
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Author:	Bessie Head
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness then we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Author:	Julia Seton
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.
Author:	Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Starts
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation

Quote:	A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Author:	King Solomon
Source:	Proverbs 17:17, Holy Bible

Quote:	Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
Author:	King Solomon
Source:	Proverbs 27:6, Holy Bible

Quote:	Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Author:	King Solomon
Source:	Proverbs 27:17, Holy Bible

Quote:	A threefold cord is not easily broken.
Author:	King Solomon
Source:	Ecclesiastes 4:12

Quote:	To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
Author:	Bernie Siegel
Source:	Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will never be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. Never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. Don't let the evils which have never happened cost you pain. 9. Always take things by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.
Author:	Thomas Jefferson
Source:	Bible Illustrator (software from Parsons Technology)

Quote:	You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.
Author:	Eric Allenbaugh
Source:	Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh

Quote:	When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
Author:	Blaine Lee
Source:	The Power Principle: Influence with Honor by Blaine Lee

Quote:	We must love one another or die.
Author:	W.H. Auden
Source:	The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations

Quote:	Do not wrong or hate your neighbor; for it is not he that you wrong; you wrong yourself.
Author:	Shawnee Chant
Source:	A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Quote:	Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them--these are the best guides for man.
Author:	Albert Einstein
Source:	The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice

Quote:	Friends are treasures.
Author:	Horace Burns
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.
Author:	Ai Ibn-Abu-Talib
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Author:	Sophocles
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
Author:	R.D. Laing
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Author:	Victor Hugo
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Author:	Dr. Karl Menninger
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	Happiness and love are just a choice away.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	To fear love is to fear life.
Author:	Bertrand Russell
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
Author:	Traditional Irish blessing
Source:	A Grateful Heart edited by M.J. Ryan

Quote:	The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Author:	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	They say the world is round and yet, Sometimes I think it's square. So many little hurts you get, From corners here and there. We flatter those we scarcely know And please the fleeting guest. Yet we deal many a thoughtless blow, To those we love the best.
Author:	Roger Heffington
Source:	Personal correspondence between K. Weber and R. Heffington

Quote:	Hold a true friend with both hands.
Author:	African proverb (Kanuri)
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Author:	Lisa Alther
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.
Author:	M. Scott Peck
Source:	The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

Quote:	Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Author:	Amos 3:3
Source:	Holy Bible

Quote:	The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
Author:	W. Somerset Maugham
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
Author:	David Augsburger
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	A friend should bear his friend's infirmities...
Author:	William Shakespeare, from Julius Caesar
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	...a friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil.
Author:	Plato
Source:	The Republic by Plato

Quote:	To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Author:	Mary Roberts Rinehart
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Author:	George Washington
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	If I'm such a legend, why am I so lonely?
Author:	Judy Garland
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
Author:	English proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Author:	Ecclesiaticus 6:16 (Apocrypha)
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	...you get appreciation by giving it.
Author:	Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner
Source:	Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at their Worst by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner

Quote:	Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Author:	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source:	The Portable Coleridge

Quote:	Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Author:	Matthew 7:1
Source:	Holy Bible

Quote:	Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Author:	Benjamin Franklin
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	I can live for two months on one good compliment.
Author:	Mark Twain
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.
Author:	Rudyard Kipling
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Author:	Dale Carnegie
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
Author:	Lord Jeffrey
Source:	Franklin Day Planner, December 31, 1993

Quote:	The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Author:	Albert Einstein
Source:	The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice

Quote:	The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.
Author:	American proverb
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation

Quote:	The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness.
Author:	American proverb
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation

Quote:	This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Author:	William Shakespeare from Hamlet
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be...
Author:	Robert Browning
Source:	Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Author:	Georgia O'Keeffe
Source:	The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron

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