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If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Related topics: Motivational
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
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
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I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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 is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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)
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
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)
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- 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)
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
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