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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- 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
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 someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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
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 one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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 a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
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
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
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
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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