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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
"True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord."
"The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best."
"There are no true friends in politics."
"A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again."
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
"A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!"
"To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
"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."
"True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart"
"Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here."
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
"The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence."
"The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?"
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."
