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All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand
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Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
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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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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 are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- 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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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 a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
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
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
"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
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
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
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