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#1

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#2

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#3

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: conservation, home, nature

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#4

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought

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#5

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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#6

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#7

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#8

“Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

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#9

“Being the Stream

Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the
stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream,
so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies.
Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally
into it.”
― Gary Snyder

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#10

“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: earth, find, gary, place, planet, responibility, snyder

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#11

“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

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#12

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

tags: chocolate, friendship

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#13

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

tags: friendship

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#14

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: friendship, love

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#15

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

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#16

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

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#17

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing

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#18

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#19

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#21

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

4116 likes

#22

“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

tags: friendship, love, service

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#23

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

tags: friendship

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#24

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.”
― Oliver Wendall Holmes

tags: disagreeable, enemies, friendship

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#25

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: friendship

1174 likes

#26

“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
― Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

tags: friendship, seperation, time

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#27

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Plutarch

tags: friendship

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#28

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

tags: friendship

385 likes

#29

“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
― Frank Crane

tags: friendship

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#30

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”
― Nick Hornby

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