Coped Quotes

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

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The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie