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You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White 
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
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
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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 friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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 visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
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
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
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
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
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