"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."

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Source : "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.

Jacques Delille

#Life Quotes #Best Friend Quotes #Friends Quotes

“The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.”
“Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.”
“Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.”
“we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.”
“My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.”

Source : Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.”
“I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.”
“As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.”

Source : Walpola Rahula (2007). “What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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