"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock on friends and friendship
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fallibility
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on resentment
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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on friends and friendship
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

Ford, Henry on friends and friendship
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"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."

Francis De Sales, St. on friends and friendship
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY"

Greeley, Andrew M. on friends and friendship
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"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

Lee, Robert E. on friends and friendship
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind "

Morrison, Toni on friends and friendship
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hell
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

King Jr. Martin Luther on mind
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"A riot is the language of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on rebellion
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"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

Alda, Alan on risk
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"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone."

Kundera, Milan on shame   

"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame."

Lyly, John on shame   

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

Buffett, Warren on risk
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"Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

Mansfield, Katherine on risk
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"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on love
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

Connolly, Cyril on love
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"He is not the same, nor is he another."

Buddha on spirituality
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."

Kierkegaard, Søren on frustration
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"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude."

Kierkegaard, Søren on irony
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"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority."

Kierkegaard, Søren on minorities
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"Once you label me you negate me."

Kierkegaard, Søren on names
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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

Kierkegaard, Søren on paradox
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."

Kierkegaard, Søren on purity
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"The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality."

Kierkegaard, Søren on quarrels
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"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances."

Kierkegaard, Søren on death   

"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

Lewis, Beca on understanding
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"No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy."

Carlyle, Thomas on understanding
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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