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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
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 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)
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- 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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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