Ends Quotes - Page 80

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Friends share all things.