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Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. ~Author Unknown

Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking. ~Author Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws. ~Author Unknown

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about. ~Author Unknown

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. ~Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ~Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

Best Friends can turn a horrible day, into one of the best days of your life. ~Nathanael Richmond

Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold. - Raheel Farooq

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverb

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~Mark Twain

"It's Risk. It's a game of world domination being played by two guys who can barely run their own lives."
- Jerry Seinfeld : "The Label Maker"

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. ~William Shakespeare

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larson

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~Jim Fiebig

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown

Anger is one letter short of danger. ~Author Unknown

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein

Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb

Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. - Reinhold Niebuhr

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence

An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown

A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. ~Edward Abbey

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ~Mason Cooley

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. ~Jeremy Taylor

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. ~Arthur C. Clarke

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps, "October," In a Southern Garden, 1995

Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer, October 2010

October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~Nova S. Bair

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. ~Jim Bishop

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau

“There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

We are betrayed by what is false within. - George Meredith

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
Edward Norton

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~Niccolo Machiavelli

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. ~Alice Walker

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. ~George W. Russell

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Khalil Gibran

May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~Irish Blessing

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you. ~Irish Toast

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And Heaven is overflowing.
~Irish Blessing

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~Jim Rohn

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~Henry Miller

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. ~D.H. Lawrence

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

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