#Quote
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facebook
Twitter
More Quotes
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
