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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

— Richard Bach Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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