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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #3
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #6
    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #7
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #8
    Nelson Mandela
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #9
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #12
    Deborah Reber
    “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
    Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

  • #13
    Stephanie Perkins
    “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #15
    Ann Landers
    “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
    Ann Landers

  • #16
    Lao Tzu
    “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #17
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #18
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
    “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
    Dinah Maria Craik

  • #19
    Andy Warhol
    “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.
    Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
    Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #22
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #23
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #24
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #26
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #27
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

  • #28
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #29
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #30
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller



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