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You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
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You are the Face of God
- Karen Drucker
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich 
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
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
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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)
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
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)
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
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