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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.”

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”

“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.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.”

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”