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You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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)
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- 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)
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