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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on friends and friendship
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"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."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

Billings, Josh on friends and friendship
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

Truman, Harry S on conceit
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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side."

Lowell, James Russell on decisions
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"To love someone deeply Gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply Gives you courage. "

Tzu, Lao on
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"Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source."

Tzu, Lao on loss
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God."

Butterworth, Eric on god    Share

"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on conceit
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"The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion."

Diderot, Denis on fanatics and fanaticism
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."

Cioran, E. M. on fanatics and fanaticism
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size."

Carver, George Washington on god
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one."

Proverb, Chinese on dream
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"The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology."

Bunting, Basil on mystics and mysticism
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"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight."

Kundera, Milan on mystics and mysticism    Share

"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."

Kierkegaard, Søren on mystics and mysticism    Share

"For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."

A Course In Miracles on perception
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"This instant is the only time there is."

A Course In Miracles on present
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"I am never upset for the reason I think."

A Course In Miracles on reason
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Only my condemnation injures me."

A Course In Miracles on control
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"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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