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You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
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Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- 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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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 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
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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)
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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 never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- 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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
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
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Know that you are loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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