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If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
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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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
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)
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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 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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
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)
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
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
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