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When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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 new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
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)
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
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 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
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
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