When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire
kind people. -- Abraham Heschel
Monday, September 30, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Fortune Quote #2615
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a
naughty world. -- William Shakespeare
naughty world. -- William Shakespeare
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Fortune Quote #2614
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort
unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my
heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated. -- Henry
David Thoreau
unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my
heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated. -- Henry
David Thoreau
Friday, September 27, 2019
Fortune Quote #2613
Whoever knows how to return a kindness is a friend above all
price. -- Sophocles
price. -- Sophocles
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Fortune Quote #2612
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident
knowledge that they will help us. -- Epicurus
knowledge that they will help us. -- Epicurus
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Fortune Quote #2611
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for all my friends.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Fortune Quote #2610
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends
on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself
to give in the same measure as I have received. -- Albert Einstein
on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself
to give in the same measure as I have received. -- Albert Einstein
Monday, September 23, 2019
Fortune Quote #2609
"Here's to all the little things, the 'done-and-then-forgotten' things,
Those 'oh-it's-simply-nothing' things That make life worth the fight."
Those 'oh-it's-simply-nothing' things That make life worth the fight."
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Fortune Quote #2608
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity
freshen into smiles. -- Washington Irving
freshen into smiles. -- Washington Irving
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Fortune Quote #2607
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of
kindness that define our days. -- Stephen Jay Gould
kindness that define our days. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Friday, September 20, 2019
Fortune Quote #2606
In the day of prosperity be joyful. And in the day of adversity consider:
God has made the one as well as the other. -- Ecclesiastes 7:14
God has made the one as well as the other. -- Ecclesiastes 7:14
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Fortune Quote #2605
"The problem with having a large vocabulary is an occasional tendency to
start one word and finish another."
start one word and finish another."
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Fortune Quote #2604
Two people, yes, two lasting friends, The giving comes, the taking ends.
There is no measure for such things, For this all Nature stops and
sings. -- Elizabeth Jennings, from "Friendship"
There is no measure for such things, For this all Nature stops and
sings. -- Elizabeth Jennings, from "Friendship"
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Monday, September 16, 2019
Fortune Quote #2602
Some people come into our lives and quickly go... Some people stay for a
while and leave their footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the
same. -- Flavia
while and leave their footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the
same. -- Flavia
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Fortune Quote #2601
The most I can do for my friends is simply to be his friend. I have no
wealth to bestow upon him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him he
will want to other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? --
Lavatin
wealth to bestow upon him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him he
will want to other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? --
Lavatin
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Fortune Quote #2600
A million billion words have been spoken about friendship means but two
good friends can be together without speaking a single word and know
precisely what friendship means. -- Stuart and Linda MacFarlane
good friends can be together without speaking a single word and know
precisely what friendship means. -- Stuart and Linda MacFarlane
Friday, September 13, 2019
Fortune Quote #2599
A friend's writing on an envelope lifts the heart on the rainiest
morning. -- Charlotte Gray
morning. -- Charlotte Gray
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Fortune Quote #2598
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be
human. -- George Santayana, 1863-1952
human. -- George Santayana, 1863-1952
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Fortune Quote #2597
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to
sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us
unfold and expand. -- Karl Menninger, 1893-1990
sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us
unfold and expand. -- Karl Menninger, 1893-1990
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Fortune Quote #2596
To know someone with whom you feel there is understanding in spite of
distances or thoughts unexpressed -- that can make of this earth a
garden. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
distances or thoughts unexpressed -- that can make of this earth a
garden. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
Monday, September 9, 2019
Fortune Quote #2595
There are many routes into a person's heart which make you a treasured
friend. Each act of kindness. Each moment shared. Each word of praise or
comfort. These are the ways -- the paths, which through time become
highways, along which lie the journey of friendship. -- Stuart and
Linda MacFarlane
friend. Each act of kindness. Each moment shared. Each word of praise or
comfort. These are the ways -- the paths, which through time become
highways, along which lie the journey of friendship. -- Stuart and
Linda MacFarlane
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Fortune Quote #2593
...the finest thing of all about friendship is that it sends a ray of good
hope into the future, and keeps our hearts from faltering or falling to the
wayside. -- Cicero
hope into the future, and keeps our hearts from faltering or falling to the
wayside. -- Cicero
Friday, September 6, 2019
Fortune Quote #2592
Friends are together when they are separated, they are rich when they are
poor, strong when they are weak, and - a thing even harder to explain -
they live on after they have died, so great is the honor that follows them,
so vivid the memory, so poignant the sorrow. -- Cicero
poor, strong when they are weak, and - a thing even harder to explain -
they live on after they have died, so great is the honor that follows them,
so vivid the memory, so poignant the sorrow. -- Cicero
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Fortune Quote #2590
When a person does a good deed when he or she didn't have to, God looks
down and smiles and says, "For this moment alone, it was worth creating the
world." -- The Talmud
down and smiles and says, "For this moment alone, it was worth creating the
world." -- The Talmud
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
Fortune Quote #2588
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote
another's wit. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
another's wit. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Fortune Quote #2587
It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and
repent. -- Ezra Taft Benson
repent. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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