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May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Related topics: Wisdom
It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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 friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
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
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 a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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)
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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