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Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
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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
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
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
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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
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 friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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 visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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 only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
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 the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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