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My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
— Edmund Hillary
He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of wished we had changed clothes, though.' 'There wasn't time,' Katie said. 'Your true love is in desperate need of your assistance. How can you think of changing into the appropriate attire for a rescue?
— Robin Jones Gunn
This sectarianism is an attempt to leap away from the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a cheap price. The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal
— Soren Kierkegaard
Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!
— Bishop TD Jakes
I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.
— Alice Walker
Today, Passover is used as an opportunity to reflect on the things that plague our world, to seek justice for the still-oppressed and even to bring together multi-faiths family and friends under the common banner of universal freedom.
— Anonymous
Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends.
— Anonymous
Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.
— Eric Metaxas
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
— Henri Nouwen
They're a good family...One can tell a great deal around a dinner table...I think the closest we ever come in this naughty world to realizing unity in diversity is around a family table. I felt it at their table, the wholeness of the family unit, freely able to expand to include friends, to include me even through Austin's and my suspicions of each other, and yet each person in that unit complete, individual, unique, valued.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To my friends and colleagues, too—and anyone else I can corner for long enough to deliver a monologue—this idea, that the Mass is "heaven on earth," arrives as news, very good news.
— Scott Hahn