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What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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 is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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 friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- 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
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)
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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)
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"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
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
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
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
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