To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch 
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Every decision you make - every decision -
is not a decision about what to do.
It's a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.
You begin to see life in a new way.
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You always have everything you need, right here, right now.
Do you know how I know? You're still here.
If you hadn't always been given everything you ever needed,
you wouldn't be here.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
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.
- George Carlin
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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