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You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- 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 friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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 friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
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)
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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