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The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
If your home is not a place where you can truly
kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally -
consider making some changes in your way-of-life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy
I made no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning
and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
- Anais Nin
I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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