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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another."

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has."

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"Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen"

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A.L. Kennedy Author
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"A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts."

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Lewis Tappan Abolitionist, Philanthropist
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"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"

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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
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"When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons."

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