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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle 
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
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In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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.
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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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
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We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
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
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
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
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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