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Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
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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)
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
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When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Seek not outside yourself.
- A Course in Miracles
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
My happiness depends on me.
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There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
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 is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- 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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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.
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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 friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
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Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
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)
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