"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"Who ceases to be a friend never was one."

Proverb, Greek on friends and friendship
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on suffering   

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

Joyce, James on writers and writing   

"While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give."

Joyce, James on giving
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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Younger, Dumas The on friends and friendship
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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."

Weil, Simone on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

Wein, Len on friends and friendship
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"We die as often as we lose a friend."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

Freud, Sigmund on normality
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"Confidence is courage at ease."

Maher, Daniel on confidence
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"Assurance is two-thirds of success."

Proverb, Gaelic on confidence   

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

Smith, Stan on confidence
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"Be larger than your task."

Marden, Orison Swett on courage   

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

Gogh, Vincent Van on courage
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on courage
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Bernard, Dorothy on courage
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"The will to do, the soul to dare."

Scott, Sir Walter on courage
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca on courage
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if Ive been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if Im not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, thats the great puzzle!"

Carroll, Lewis on uncategorised   

"What I tell you three times is true."

Carroll, Lewis on truth
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

Gogh, Vincent Van on self-talk