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It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
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A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
My only fear is that I may live too long.
This would be a subject of dread to me.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
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