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ANAïS NIN Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by...
ANAIS NIN Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by ...
ANAIS NIN Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this mee...
ANAIS NIN The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...
ANAïS NIN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.
EMMITT SMITH When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
ANAïS NIN The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has un...
HENRY B. EYRING In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but...
SUE WICKS Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Happiness is like peeing your pants... Everyone can see it,But only you can feel the warmth.
A FRIEND Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that...
KATHLEEN TURNER A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU ...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each oth...
JOJO MOYES A man cannot be born again in a lower world; but can only be born into a Brahman world, before he re...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.
Our behavior, attitu...
MOSES TIKO LUNGU A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refu...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cr...
NATSUKI TAKAYA I have faith that the illusions we currently hold about who we are will not sustain us. I trust huma...
AMY MCTEAR You can not live with a paw in each world.
ERIN HUNTER Each of us represents " I am " as a person. - Paul E. Ehimen
PAUL E. EHIMEN World Community Grid represents a new model for philanthropic giving,
LINDA SANFORD Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child c...
BETTE DAVIS My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come t...
ERIC KANDEL When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS What do I look for in a friend?
You!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy.
DEAN C. BARNLUND Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON He kept us in contention for so long. He had a world class game until that.
FRANK BAUMANN Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in ...
PATRICK CALIFIA-RICE I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK If every smile were received with another one returned, and we were to begin with our own, it wouldn...
JOEY TALLADINO Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people i...
ANIK FOURNIER “A 'FRIEND' IS NOT A 'FRIEND' UNTIL THEY KNOW WHERE YOU HURT• UNTIL THEY KNOW HOW TO STOMP YOUR ...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled...
BUDDHA Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a chi...
BETTE DAVIS You were not born alone but with your best friend who sticks with you until you both die.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gif...
MARIO PUZO If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believe...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a qu...
KELLI JAE BAELI Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
JOHN FLORIO A true friend walks in when the world walks out.
UNKNOWN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN In a perfect world it would be you and me against the world. But we are not living in a perfect worl...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL We don't know the outcome of this. DP World owns us, but we're operating without any control or dire...
FRANK FOGARTY We don't know the outcome of this. DP World owns us, but we're operating without any control or dire...
FRANK FOGARTY We think that array of issues in each student's admission will give us the kind of latitude we need ...
NANCY ZIMPHER In a dog's world,
would we be his best friend?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe dur...
CAROLE KING Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
RICK RIORDAN All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a ...
PLUTARCH An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They br...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Everyone wants to be your friend, until they have to be a friend.
CHRISTOPHER W. FORTNEY If we accept the unacceptable, we contribute to it....jh
JIMBO HENDERSON It's a simple thing to triumph over your enemies; to confused them and make them unable to retaliate...
J.R. MORALES I am very confused and it's from a very very long time....

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Already is a di...
DEYTH BANGER It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN The United States has the most energetic watercolor scene in the world.
GEORGE JAMES It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our friends believed in us and in what I was doing. Perhaps they looked at us as some sort of an ide...
GEORGE WEIN US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the fac...
DANIEL BARENBOIM The light is a friend of the dark, sharing the world together. Light takes over in the day, while th...
NIRVIK PARAJULI It took a little time to arrive at a theme, but when 'World Tour' was proposed, everyone agreed.
ANDREA AFKHAMI John Ashcroft is not a friend of liberty and justice. George Bush, the appointed president, is not s...
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving e...
RICK REMENDER I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
AULIQ ICE One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
BARBARA MIKULSKI It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easi...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a be...
E. NESBIT In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Sh...
KAREN SALMANSOHN The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
HERACLITUS It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world i...
RUDOLF STEINER I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe eac...
ANI DIFRANCO You cannot live with a paw in each world.
ERIN HUNTER The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition t...
JOHN WILLIAMS The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between th...
SUZY KASSEM For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his b...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate...
PHILIPPE PETIT Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the o...
DEAN KOONTZ Considering that 47.4% of the babies born in the US arrive as bastards, or if you prefer, born to un...
BOBBY W. MILLER We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
WILLIAM CONGREVE We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controllin...
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ANAïS NIN A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o...
ANAïS NIN I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
ANAïS NIN You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
ANAïS NIN In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
ANAïS NIN We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
ANAïS NIN Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra.
ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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