Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

Aristotle

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

Aristotle

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

Aristotle

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Aristotle

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Abraham Flexner

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Alex Flinn

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.

Miley Cyrus

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

C. S. Lewis

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

C. S. Lewis

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

Bryant H. McGill

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Edward Young

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Eckhart Tolle

Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

Dorothy Allison

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Anne Tyler

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

E. L. James

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.

Don DeLillo

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Dorothy Dunnett

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.