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Trumpet in a herd of elephants;
crow in the company of cocks;
bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
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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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- 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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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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 one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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)
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
"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
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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