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Thought For the Day: Familiarity With Other Countries Teaches Us We May Be Friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou, poet (4 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Countries, Familiarity, Friendship, Maya Angelou, Similar, Thought For the Day, Travel, Understanding
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Communal
The man looked and his head tilted Seeing the world as just a little stilted It seems that we find what we wish Depending on the selection of choice dish And life rolls on with a certain angled spin Finding … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, Choice, Communal, Community, Company, Daily Prompt, Extended Family, Friendship, Love, Memories, Stilted, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Friendship Forms In the Kindness That Overflows
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: A Real Friend Knows You Instantly
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach, in Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977) The text of this work is … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Tact And Courtesy Keep Our Friendships Close
“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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Courtesy, Disagreeable, Flatter, Friendship, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Tact, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: True Friendship Rests On Understanding and Being Understood
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca The more that things change; the more they stay the same. This is just as true today as it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Friendship, Qualities, Seneca, Truth, Understanding, Understood
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First Principles: Honest Friendship With All, Entanglements With None
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none” – Thomas Jefferson Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address can be read in its entirety here: http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres16.html
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Tagged Alliances, Commerce, Entangle, First Inaugural Address, First Principles, Foreign Policy, Friendship, Honest, Peace, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: A True Friend Is More Esteemed Than Family
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is to be more esteemed than kinship.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero You can read … Continue reading
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Tagged Cicero, Family, Friendship, Harvard Classics, Life, Sun, Thought For the Day
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