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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.
Finally I saw that everything had come to nothing. and gave it up. and took my old body and went out into the morning and sang.
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A bird was lying on his back in the road with his feet in the air. A horse saw him and asked, “What’re you doing?” The sparrow said, “I’m helping hold back the darkness.” The horse sneered and said, “Yeah, right,” and the sparrow said, “One does what one can.”
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