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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
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A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
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 a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- 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
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 someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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)
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
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
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)
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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]
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
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