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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein / 1932 response quoted in The New York Times

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein / Militant Pacifism

Departing spring— birds cry, and in the eyes of fish are tears.

Matsuo Basho / Oku no Hosomichi

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams / How Would You Uplift the Masses?

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington / Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

I am not necessarily a saint, nor is another necessarily a fool; we are both merely ordinary people.

Prince Shotoku / Seventeen-Article Constitution (Source is unconfirmed).

One people, one breath, one mind, one heart.

Kamehameha I / Vision for unified Hawaii

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

Jane Austen / Northanger Abbey (1817)

You are to be proud of your enemy; then the success of your enemy is your success also.

Inazō Nitobe / Bushido: The Soul of Japan

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie / How to Win Friends and Influence People

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie / How to Win Friends and Influence People

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

L. M. Montgomery / Anne of Green Gables

For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather.

Christina Rossetti / Goblin Market (1859)
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