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You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
Related topics: Inspirational Intention
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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)
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
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
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- 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
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
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