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Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- 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)
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 never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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.
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I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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 friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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 is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
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