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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
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.
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
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
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
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
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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