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You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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 friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
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 one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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)
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- 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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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 friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
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