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The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
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If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Greetings, cosmic children of the universe.
Welcome to my serenity circle.
Please leave all bad vibes outside the healing vortex.
- the movie Shrek the Third (2007)
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
If love is the answer,
could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
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 friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
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 is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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)
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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