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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Golda Meir
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir
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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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 is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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 one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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