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Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
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
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
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
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
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
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
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