Excluding Quotes

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

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Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

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

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

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

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

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