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If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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)
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
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