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You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
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
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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 friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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 friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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)
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
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
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
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
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
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