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You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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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
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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)
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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)
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
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Know that you are loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
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