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People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But they won't forget the way you made them feel.

Choose friends wisely. Focus your energy on people who make you feel good.
Treat others how you want to be treated.
Make time. Prioritize Relationships.
Have fun. Share rituals. Laugh Often.
Accept people the way they are. Suspend judgment.
Respect boundaries.
There will be disagreements. Stay calm. Don’t make mountains out of molehills.
Accept that friendships change and sometimes end.
Treat yourself with kindness and respect, and others will do the same.
- Kelly Rigby

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it, keep cool but care.
- Thomas Pynchon, V

Good friends are like stars — you don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
- Anon

Have a family that behaves like a friend, and friends that behave like a family.
- Anon.

Don't accept a Saturday night date after Wednesday
Don't talk to a man first (and don't ask him to dance)
Don't call him and rarely return his calls
Don't meet him halfway or go dutch on a date
- From The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider

DAVE BARRY’S RULES
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday.
The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
- Dave Barry

When you’re down and out, something always turns up – and it’s usually the noses of your friends.
– Orson Welles

THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHARLES SCHULTZ

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade’s worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?
The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here’s another quiz.
See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
Easier?

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care.
- Source: Leadership Now

The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother, just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up--take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now.
- All Quiet on the Western Front

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- Jean Cocteau

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