ISBN 1448628768
EAN 9781448628766
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Autohagiography
Friendship.......................................................................... 5
Kindness ...........................................................................29
Happiness..........................................................................57
Laughter ...........................................................................75
Index .................................................................................93
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Friendship
Friendship
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Friendship
Friendship
The law sent us our relatives, but thank God, we can choose
our friends ourselves.
It’s not important how many friends you have, but how many
you’re going to make.
Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.
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Friendship
Some people make the world more special just by being in it.
A true friend is one who notices when you lose a pound, but
not when you gain ten.
Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the
doorsteps of neighbors.
No one can give you inner strength, but sometimes they can
help you find it.
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Friendship
It’s what the guests say as they pull out of the driveway that
really counts.
Don’t tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the
fault and never forgive you.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about.
A real friend is one who will tell you of your faults and follies
in prosperity, and assist you with a hand and heart in
adversity.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true
friends will leave footprints in your heart.
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Friendship
True friends are those that really know you, but love you
anyway.
You who are letting your friend‘s heart ache for a word of
appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him
someday, the time is short.
When a friend deals with a friend, let the bargain be clear and
well penned, that they may continue friends to the end.
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Friendship
A real friend is one who will continue to talk to you over the
back fence even though he knows he’s missing his favorite
television program.
Real friends don’t ask you for money unless you owe it to
them.
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Friendship
The more arguments you win, the fewer friends, you will
have.
Close your eyes to the faults of others and watch the doors of
friendship swing wide open.
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Friendship
Blessed are the ones God sends to show His love for us - our
friends.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then
wait to hear the answer.
The proper duty of a friend is to side with you when you are
in the wrong. Anybody will side with you when you are in the
right.
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Friendship
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but, a true
friend will be sitting next to you saying, “Wow, that was
fun!”
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Friendship
Live so your friends can defend you, but never have to.
When a best friend is told you are having an affair they ask,
“Is it catered?”
Friends come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts and
we are never the same.
Our lives are filled with simple joys and blessings without
end and one of the greatest joys in life is to have a friend.
He alone has lost the art to live, who cannot win new friends.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the
anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
A friend that you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay
for him, no matter what that may be.
Friends feed each other and not just bread and soup. Friends
feed each other’s spirits and dreams and hopes; they feed
each other with the things a soul needs to live.
If you use your friends like a light switch, beware, you may
burn out the bulb.
The best friend does not worry about how many friends to
count, but rather that he or she can be a friend to be counted.
Tell me whom you associate with, and I will tell you who you
are.
People who mind don’t matter, and people who matter won’t
mind.
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Friendship
There’s never a dull moment when I’m out with Tom. It lasts
the whole evening.
You are meeting a friend when you don’t worry about the
impression you are making.
The people we remember after they are gone are the people
who remembered us while they were alive.
If the faults we see in others were not so much like our own,
we would not recognize them so easily.
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Friendship
Real friends are those who see heart to heart when they don’t
see eye to eye.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world
walks out.
Friends are folks who have faults you pretend not to notice.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, and three are
hardly possible.
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Friendship
A friend is someone who makes you feel like the person you
would like to be.
Being old is good and bad - being old and lonely is all bad.
If you want people to agree with you, admit you have a fault.
The biggest step you can take is when you meet others
halfway.
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Friendship
A friend indeed is that rare soul who sees right through us,
but sees us through.
Friends see things with their heart instead of with their eyes.
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Friendship
If you are looking for friends, find those who need you.
When friends start buttering you up, you know they’re going
to put the bite on you.
If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the
wrong golf ball.
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Friendship
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon
to man.
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Friendship
The people who help you move on a rainy day are true-blue
friends.
If you must talk about your troubles, don’t bore your friends
with them. Tell them to your enemies, who will be delighted
to hear about them.
If you’ve learned that a good friend is ill, don’t ask him about
it, let him tell you first.
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Friendship
The nicest thing about new friends is, they haven’t heard your
old stories.
If you are attracted to the right kind of friends, when you start
to go wrong, they will keep you going right.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is
one of God‘s best gifts. It involves many things, but above
all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating
whatever is noble and loving in another.
You never really know your friends until you take a vacation
with them.
We cherish our friends, not for their ability to amuse us, but
for ours to amuse them.
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You know you have read a good book when you turn the
last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.