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"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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 you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
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
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
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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.
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
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- 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]
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
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
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