He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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