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- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude
- What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
- Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
- Unknown
- Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
- Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
- The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
- Leonard I. Sweet
- The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
- Charles Sorenson
- The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc, Founder, McDonald's
- The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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