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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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