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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
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Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- 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

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

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

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 no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

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

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain

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

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- 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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

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

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