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There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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