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You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Related topics: Wisdom
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
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
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
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