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Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
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