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«Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.»
Author: Emily Kimbrough | Keywords: comfort, hand, hand in hand, in hand, One of Us, on one hand, remember, stumble, stumbles, why
«I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.»
Author: Hazel Lee | Keywords: brilliant, carelessly, drip, dripped, flower, fragile, hand, hand held, held, hour, moment, one hour, on one hand, opportunity, sliver, star, tiniest, tiny
«The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.»
Author: Larry Flynt (Publisher) | About: Friends, Friendship, Love, Words | Keywords: count, die, Die Trying, English, entire, fingered, fingering, fingers, hand, misuse, misused, on one hand, start, tried and true, trying
«I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.»
Author: Sarah McLachlan (Singer, Songwriter) | About: Love, Relationships | Keywords: else, hands, hand held, heaven, Heaven To, hold, I Love You, near, neared, nearing, nears, near in, No One, on one hand, out of reach, reach, reach into, reach out, smile, The Way, This Is
«To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give»
Author: Taisen Deshimaru | Keywords: by hand, Everything, give, handing, handing over, hands, hand out, hand to hand, must, on hand, on one hand, open, out of hand, receive
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha | About: Belief | Keywords: accept, after, agreeing, agrees, analysis, anything, authority, been, believe in, benefit, Best Book, booked, books, Books not, Book One, book up, by hand, conducive, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, elders, find, found, founds, generations, good, good and, good authority, Good Living, handed-down, handed, handing, handing over, hands down, hand down, hand out, hand to hand, heard, hear out, it accepts, live, live up to, many, merely, observation, One Good Reason, on hand, on one hand, on the books, On Writing, out of hand, reason, religious, rumored, simply, speaking in, speaks in, speak up, spoken, take down, teachers, then, they, The Authority, To be written, to it, Traditions, up to, with reason, write of, write out, written
«This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: close, Get closer, hand, hardest, loves, on one hand, open, This Is
«What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands»
Author: C.S. Lewis (Novelist, Scholar) | About: Soul | Keywords: Creation, fate, hands, In Your Hands, on one hand, opportunities, Other People, placed, really, soul, souls, struggles, temptations, the Fates, The Temptations, whole
«The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: encounters, hand, loneliest, lonely, offers, on one hand, quickly, The Lonely, The Lonely One
«The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Friends, Friendship | Keywords: believes, comes, companionship, discovers, else, Friend, friendship, glory, glorying, hand, him, inspiration, inspirations, joy, Joy of, kindlier, kindliest, kindly, Nor, on one hand, outstretched, outstretches, smile, Someone else, spiritual, spiritual being, The Spiritual, To Joy, trust, willing
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