quotes on trust and friendship

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. ~Haniel Long



To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender



You have to be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. ~Charles De Gaulle, Time, 8 December 1967



Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle



Different isn't always better, but better is always different. ~Author Unknown



A relentless barrage of "why�s" is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often. ~Shigeo Shingo



There is no gravity. The earth sucks. ~Graffito



If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961



It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore



Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ~Josh Billings



Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~Gandhi



I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977



I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. ~Paula Poundstone



Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. ~Nicholai Velimirovic



It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism



What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~Aldous Huxley



I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. ~Woody Allen I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. ~Woody Allen



The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin



We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest. ~Martin H. Fischer