I feel enlighten by powerful quotations.

 

Please enjoy the quotes I have to offer. Most are taken from "From My Friend" compiled by Nick Beilenson.

 

 

 01)"If we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others -
for their use and to our detriment."
-- Audre Lorde --

02)"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality."
-- Daniel Webster --

03)"Always give your best.  Never get discouraged.  Never be petty.
Always remember: Others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.  And then you destroy yourself." 
-- Richard M. Nixon --

04)"Friendship is like a bank account: you cannot continue to draw on it
without making deposits." 
-- Anonymous --

05)"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-- Nigerian Proverb --

06)"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
-- George D Prentice --

07)"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you
when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still-
and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. A library is
a collection of friends." 
-- Lyman Abbott --

08)"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
-- Samuel Butler --

09)"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something
you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything." 
-- Muhammad Ali --

10)"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing
or the other, and we then know how to meet him." 
-- Aesop --

11)"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."  
-- Jane Austen --

12)"Being a good friend, and having a good friend, can enrich your days and bring
you lifelong satisfaction. But friendships don't just happen. They have to be
created and nurtured. Like any other skill, building friendship has to be practiced."
-- Sue Browder --

13)"When friends meet, hearts warm."
-- Proverb --

14)"What's fascinating is that strong friendships exist amid the most cutthroat
competitive relationships." 
-- Lynn Jennings --

15)"Don't be too quick to give up on a friendship when an old bond is severed.
If you would like the friendship to continue, find new interests you both can share." 
-- Norman M. Lobsenz --

16)"My friend is one whom I can associate with my choicest thoughts."  
-- Henry David Thoreau --

17)"Friendship multiply joys, and divide griefs."
-- Henry George Bohn --

18)"In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a
fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities,
but it is our differences we must learn to respect."  
-- Roberta Israeloff --

19)"When friends ask, there is no tomorrow."
-- Proverb --

20)"The problems that plague a friendship are rarely one hundred percent the
other person's fault. We should self-examine carefully before we make up
our mind-and before we close it." 
-- Judith Viorst --

21)"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins --

22)"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
-- Cicero --

23)"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth
to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want
no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"  
-- Henry David Thoreau --

24)"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having
neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." 
-- George Eliot --

25)"Friendship begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up."
-- George Eliot --

26)"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." 
-- Samuel Johnson --

27)"A true Friend is the best Possession."
-- Benjamin Franklin --

28)"Happy is the house that shelters a friend."  
-- Ralhp Waldo Emerson --

29)"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."  
-- Dave Tyson Gentry --

30)"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
-- Kahlil Gibran --

31)"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard --

32)"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
-- Hubert Humphrey --

33)"If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he
will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in
constant repair." 
-- Samuel Johnson --

34)"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
-- John 15:13 --

35)"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
-- Thomas Jefferson --

36)"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth
a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of
happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world." 
-- Helen Keller --

37)"Real friendship must be based on several shared interests, so that when one
unravels, others remain." 
-- Norman M. Lobsenz --

38)"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
-- Abraham Lincoln --

39)"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be
friends with anyone else in the world." 
-- Eleanor Roosevelt --

40)"Sooner or later you've heard what all your best friends have to say. Then
comes the tolerance of real love." 
-- Ned Rorem --

41)"Love demands infinitely less than friendships."
-- George Jean Nathan --

42)"Friendship that have stood the test-time and change-are surely best." 
-- Joseph Parry --

43)"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who
are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." 
-- Robert Southey --

44)"Friendship is the only element that will ever hold the world together."
-- Woodrow Wilson --

45)"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until
your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving
cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be
thrilled by them." 
-- Henry Ward Beecher --

46)"As long as there is poverty in the world, I can never be rich, even if I have
a billion dollars.
"As long as diseases are ramapant and millions of people in this world cannot
expect to live more than 28 to 30 years, I can never be totally healthy - even if I
just got a good checkup at the Mayo Clinic.
"I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This
is the way the world is made."
-- Martin Luther King --

47)"The secret of living with frustration and worry..is to avoid becoming
personally involved in your own life."
-- Ziggy --

48)"Relaxed - otherwise you might die all tensed up."
-- Unknown --

49)"How would you like a job where, if you make a mistake, a big red light goes
on and 18,000 people boo?"
-- Former hockey goalie, Jacques Plante --

50)My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work,
and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -
anything but work."
-- Abraham Lincoln --

51)"To love what you do, and to feel that it matters - how could anything be
more fun?"
-- Katharine Graham --

52)"Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries."
-- Unknown --

53)"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goals."
-- Unknow --

54)"Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."
-- Unknown --

 55)"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Do what you can."
-- Sydney Smith --

 56)"Common sense and common knowledge are two of the most uncommon things in the
world."
-- Unknown --

57)"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all
your money."
-- Unknown --

58)"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and
remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain --

59)"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find
humor in something, you can survive it."
-- Bill Cosby --

60)"The hardest part about dieting is not watching what you eat - it's watching
what other people eat."
-- Unknown --

61)Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once."
-- Unknown --

62)"Inside every older person there's a younger person wondering what happened."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant --

63)"The more likely causes of death I avoid, the more likely it is that I will die
of something unlikely."
-- Unknown --

64)"...perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused
rather than shocked."
-- Pearl S. Buck --

 65)"Success means only doing what you do well, and letting someone else do the rest.
-- Goldstein's Truism --

66)"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time."
-- Richard Cecil --

67)"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have
their bright ideas closer together."
-- George Lichlenberg --

68)"Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you."
-- Spanish Proverb --

69)"Peace is not something you wish for. It is something you make, something
you do, something you are, and something you give away."
-- Robert Fulghum --

 70)"One trouble with trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
-- Unknown --

 71)"There are only four questions worth asking: What is sacred? Of what is the
spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to all
four questions is the same: Only love."
-- Don Juan De Marcos --

 72)"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved."
-- Charles Morgan --

 73)"Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-- Dr. Karl Menninger --

 74)"The conclusion is always the same: love is the most powerful and still the most
unknown energy of the world."
-- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin --

 75)"It is safe to let the love in. Love is your divine right."
-- Louise L. Hay --

 76)"Love seeks not limits but outlets."
-- Anonymous --

 77)"If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp
burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
-- Mother Teresa --

 78)"Where you find no love, put love, and you will find love."
-- John of the Cross --

79)"When people love each other, an important kind of giving is "giving in.""
-- Leo Buscaglia --

 80)"What a world this would be if we just built bridges instead of walls."
-- Carlos Ramirez --

 81)"Love comes unseen: we only see it go."
-- Austin Dobson --

82)"You know a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating just the same."
-- Fannie Flagg --

83)"Loving can cost a lot; not loving always costs more."
-- Merle Shain --

84)"There is no place love is not."
-- Hugh Prather --

 85)"Even when you are a thousand miles away, I dine alone with two cups on my table."
-- Japanese love letter --

 86)"The story of love is not important. What is important is that one is capable
of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
-- Helen Hayes --

 87)"Nice how love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me'."
-- Leo Buscaglia --

 88)"Love is a game that two can play and both can win."
-- Michael Nolan --

 89)"No, the game of love is never called on account of darkness."
-- Tote Yamada --

 90)"I give thee what could not be heard, what has not been given before:
The beat of my heart I give."
-- Edith M. Thomas --

91)"Friends are those rare souls who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer."
-- Ed Cunningham --

 92)"Dear George:
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings!
Love, Clarence the Angel."
-- It's a Wonderful Life --

93)"Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same."
-- Emily Bronte --

94)"Winter, spring, summer or fall...all you've got to do is call...and I'll be there,
yes I will...you've got a friend."
-- Carole King --

95)"People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure
out which it is, you know exactly what to do."
-- Michelle Ventor --

96)"Where did I come from?" the baby asked its mother.
She answered, half-crying, half-laughing, and clasping the baby to her breast:
"You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling. You were in the dolls of all
my childhood games. In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, in the life of my mother,
and in her mother before her, you have lived. In the lap of the Eternal Spirit you have
been nursed and anticipated for ages.""
-- Rabindranath Tagore --

 97)"For some, attitude presents a difficulty in every opportunity; for others it presents
an opportunity in every difficulty. Some climb with a positive attitude, while others fall
with a negative perspective. The very fact that the attitude makes some while breaking
others is significant enough for us to explore its importance."

"Observer people who are negative, unhappy, or have unfulfilled lives, you find they
are crying out against society, which they feel is out to get them and give them a
life of trouble, misery and bad luck-sometimes the prison of discontent was built by
theri own hands."

"The world doesn't care whether we free ourselves from this prison or not. It marches on.
Adopting a good healthy attitude towards life does not affect society as much as it
affects us."

"The change can not come from others, it must come from us."
-- John Maxwell --

 98)"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King --

 99)"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become action.
Watch your actions; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
-- Frank Outlaw --

 100)"Nobody can be perfect, but all of us can be excellent."
-- Anonymous --

 101)"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
-- Sir William Blake --

 102)"Executives are folks who get bonuses for the good work their employees have done."
-- Carney Ford --

 103)"Early to bed, and early to rise, till you make enough money to do otherwise."
-- Greg Sands --

 104)"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-- Sir Winston Churchill --

 105)"Life can be only understood backwards; meanwhile, it has to be lived forwards."
-- Yue Ming Huang (My peer counselor at UCLA.) --

 106)"You cannot change the hands of time."
-- Baby Valerie Ting (A very good friend of mine.) --

 107)"Don't let life surprise you; suprise life!"
-- Some one told me this but I cannot recall who it was. Should I claim responsiblity for this? --

 108)"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. --



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