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You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
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