Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
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What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
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No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
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It pays to know the enemy—not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living.
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You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Count reminiscences like money .
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We do not remember days; we remember moments.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
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I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.
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Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
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Whatever a man’s age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Maturity means reacquiring the seriousness one had as a child at play.
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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