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One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.

— Elton Mayo Edward William Bok (1947)

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Defeat takes the form of ultimate disillusion — a disgust with the "futility of endless pursuit."

The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation (1933)

The problem is not that of the sickness of an acquisitive society; it is that of the acquisitiveness of a sick society.

The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation (1933)

The recent growth of interest in political matters in Australia is by no means a sign of social health.

If our social skills (that is, our ability to secure co-operation between people) had advanced step by step with our technical skills, there would not have been another European War.

Acting in collaboration with the National Research Council, the Western Electric Company had for three years been engaged upon an attempt to assess the effect of illumination upon the worker and his work.

The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation (1933)

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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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