Quotes August 23, 2020

The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
Seneca
 
 
 
 
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
 
 
 
 
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“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.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
Clifton Fadiman
 
 
 
 
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
 
 
 
 
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Eugene Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“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.”
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins
 
 
 
 
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox