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Please enjoy these Quotes about Upbeat and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Sad Feeling-Down Worry Happiness Wisdom Inspirational
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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 are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- 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)
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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