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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
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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
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everyone is the keeper of a dream
- Oprah Winfrey
The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,
at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little,
at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick,
at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
- The Buddha
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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 new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
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
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
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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.
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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