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You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
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When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with.
It responds like a snail to our impatience,
then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.
- the movie Simon Birch
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with..
- the movie Simon Birch
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
What does coffee and donuts have to do with God?
- the movie Simon Birch (1998)
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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.
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
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
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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)
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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