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You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Intention
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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)
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- 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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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 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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- 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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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