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ON FRIENDS:

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

                                                          - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

                                                           -Arnold Glasow

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

                                                            -Leon Uris

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

                                                              -Margeret Carty

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

                                                               -Abraham Lincoln

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn’t.

                                                                -Bern Williams

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

                                                                -Evelyn Waugh  

Presence is more than just being there.

                                                                -Malcolm Forbes

ON HOME:

Where we love is home-home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

                                                                -Oliver Wendall Holmes

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

                                                                - Louis L’Amour

ON ACCEPTANCE:

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

                                                                   -Ken Keyes

Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.

                                                                    -Roger Anderson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

                                                                    -Judy Garland.

He who accepts himself is prepared to forgive others.

                                                                    -Martin Descalzo

You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else’s.

                                                                    -Jeanne Marie Laskas

ON LOVE AND LAUGHTER:

A laugh at your own expense costs you nothing.

                                                                    -Mary Waldrip

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

                                                                    -Bob Newhart

Humour is the affectionate communication of insight.

                                                                      -Leo Rosten

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.                                                                                                 -Golda Meir

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

                                                                    -Helen Hayes

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

                                                                    -Willa Cather

ON LIFE:

Life is at it’s best when it’s shaken and stirred.

                                                                   -Paul Facult

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.

                                                                   -Ian Progoff

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing rods.

                                                                   -Doug Larson

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

                                                                   - John Lennon

If you fail to prepare for life, prepare to fail.

                                                                   -Zimbabwean proverb

ALL PHILOSOPHICAL:

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

                                                                  -Turkish proverb

It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.

                                                                  -Tom Brokaw

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

                                                                  -Isaac Asimov

The turkey is living proof that an animal can survive wtih no inteligence at all.

                                                                -Harvey Comstock

Sometimes you have to leave the shade of the family tree to find the sun.

                                                                -Simla Ganas

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

                                                                -Sam Rayburn

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.

                                                                -Bernard Malamud

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

                                                                -Floyd Dell

ON POSITIVITY:

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

                                                                -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

                                                                -Dolly Parton

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

                                                                -Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

                                                                -Mike Leavitt

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

                                                                -Herm Albright

ON LEADERSHIP:

Leadership is an opportunity to serve.  It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

                                                                -J.Donald Walters

What we need is not politicians, but leaders.

                                                                -Louis Broude

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

                                                                -Wayne Lukas

Do not follow where a path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

                                                               -D. Wright

SO TRUE:

Some people get lost in thought because it’s such unfamiliar territory.

                                                               -G.Behn

Today’s future barely includes tomorrow.

                                                              -Athol Fugard.

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the fridge are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

                                                              -Joey Adams

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

                                                          -Henry Ford

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

                                                          -Horace Brown

ON WINNING AND LOSING:

Everyone likes a good loser, especially when he’s on the opposing team.

                                                          -Milton Segal

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

                                                          -Dick Armey

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

                                                          -Paul Bryant

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

                                                          -Walter Weckler

Success is getting what you want.  Happiness is liking what you get.

                                                          -H. Jackson Brown

ON WISDOM:

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

                                                          -C.S. Lewis

Man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

                                                          -Elbert Hubbard

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

                                                          -Marilyn vos Savant

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

                                                          -William James

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things.  I think you get old because you give up things.

                                                           -Theodore Francis green  

You never reeally understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

                                                          -Harper Lee

It’s one thing to learn about the past, it is another to wallow in it.

                                                          -Kenneth Auchincloss

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody- it saves so much trouble.

                                                            -Rudyard Kipling

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

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