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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
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Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
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 someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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)
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
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- 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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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