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Nietzsche on Madness in Groups

Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. -- Nietzsche

Misery Actively Recruits

A writer for the Chicago Tribune recently interviewed a man who helps people who've lost their jobs, usually because of addictions. The interview brought out the importance of having the right friends: "As one recovering addict put it, 'I don't just have to avoid using, I have to avoid using behavior. That means giving up all my old friends.' Misery doesn't just love company, it has an active recruiting program. Rather than refusing to fail, the successful refuse to stay with failure." (Chicago Tribune, 12/30/01)? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

Walk Beside Me

Don't walk in front of me. I may not follow. Don't walk behind me. I may not lead. Walk beside me. And just be my friend. --Albert Camus

Become Holy By Hanging Out With the Holy

The way to grow in holiness is to be around people more holy than ourselves. We hear their stray comments and absorb their judgment of what?s important. We listen to their prayers and find that God is bigger than we?d thought. -- Oswald Chambers

Loving Friends

What I cannot love, I overlook. Isn?t that real friendship? -- Anais Nin

Friends Who Stab

A true friend stabs you in the front. -? Oscar Wilde

Fall of The World's Fastest Human

Bob Hayes was known as the "World's Fastest Human." A hero of the 1964 Olympics, he won the Gold Medal in the 100 meter run. Later he excelled as an all-pro wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. He seemed to have it all. But he lost it all in 1979 when he sold drugs to an undercover agent, and received two 5-year prison sentences. Why did he fall? According to Hayes and those close to him, he chose the wrong friends, who gave him bad advice and led him into trouble. The violation of one Scriptural principle ruined his life, plunging him from the pinnacle of success to prison. The Apostle Paul warned us almost 2000 years ago, "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Troubles Let You Know Your Friends

?Trouble is a sieve for separating friends from acquaintances.? J. Gustav White

Lincoln on Priority of Friendships

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. --Abraham Lincoln

Friendship Without Self-Interest

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. --James Francis Byrnes

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