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Anais Nin:
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only
by this meeting that a new world is born.
George Eliot:
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Shusha Guppy:
The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have
you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend."
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?
Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be
its foundation.
Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the
foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long
courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they
pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new
beginnings.
Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit. – Diego Marchi
The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." O. Wilde
"To get back one's youth, one merely has to repeat one's follies."
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer