"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

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Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

Amos Bronson Alcott

#Friendship Quotes #Friends Quotes #World Quotes

“Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?”
“When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.”
“Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.”
“Evil lurks where disappointment lodges...”
“I really love being in London at weekends - there's always so much to do.”
“Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.”
“I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was in that studio trying my best to feel content with myself. I had, like, a stipend. I had a place to sleep. I had a studio to work in. I had nothing else to think about, you know. And that's - that was a huge luxury in New York City.”
“I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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