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You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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 best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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 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)
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Know that you are never alone.
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Know that you are loved.
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Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
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