"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on friends and friendship
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"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

Barrymore, Ethel 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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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on acceptance
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"If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him."

Pike, James Albert on acceptance
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"It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do."

Heavenrich, Charly on acceptance
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"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."

Seneca on safety   

"The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord."

Bible on safety   

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."

Bennett, Arnold on friends and friendship
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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on friends and friendship
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"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."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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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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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist."

Camara, Dom H. on poverty and the poor
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"There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on poverty and the poor   

"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary."

Feiffer, Jules on poverty and the poor   

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen."

Harrington, Michael on poverty and the poor   

"Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!"

Hood, Thomas on poverty and the poor   

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."

Mother Teresa on poverty and the poor
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"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow."

Johnson, Samuel on poverty and the poor   

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."

Madonna on poverty and the poor
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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Mother Teresa on poverty and the poor
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"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition."

James, William on poverty and the poor   

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing."

Berger, John on poverty and the poor
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"Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."

Thoreau, Henry David on humility
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"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."

Jung, Carl on emotions
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"Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work."

Unknown, Source on concentration
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"A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash."

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork on laughter