We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.
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Related You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die. C.B. COOK If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more tha... S.E. HINTON Monica: I got a leg, three breasts, and a wing. Chandler: how do you find clothes that fit? FRIENDS [after settling a fight between Monica and Rachel] Phoebe: Hey, if we were in prison, you guys would... FRIENDS [Ross is walking down the aisle at Chandler and Monica's wedding] Ross: Wow. This is the first time ... FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik] Chandler: Suddenly I don't have the worst costume an... FRIENDS It's bizarre, it's like a dream that we haven't woken up from. We tried to go through every possible... FRIENDS Phoebe : They don't know that we know they know we know. FRIENDS Joey to Ross:Well, if you can’t talk dirty to me, how you gonna talk dirty to her? Now, tell me yo... FRIENDS Chandler to Joey:Yes, on a scale from one to ten, ten being the dumbest a person can look, you are d... FRIENDS Joey enters wearing an elf costume. Chandler is in agony] Chandler: Too many jokes. Must mock Joey. FRIENDS Pheobe: "I'm late for...uhhh...my Green Eggs and Ham discussion group. Tonight is why he would not e... FRIENDS She was a promiscuous lady in her younger days. FRIENDS [Joey is making marinara sauce and filling every container possible with it. Chandler enters] Chandl... FRIENDS Chandler [In response to a stupid comment]: You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance. FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik] Chandler: Suddenly I don't have the worst costume anymore... FRIENDS There's definitely an element of fatal attraction here. I think that's great; that's a compliment, FRIENDS They eliminated 82 percent of what they originally proposed for critical habitat, FRIENDS The Edge Of Texas. FRIENDS Mark Twain. FRIENDS ...Because it is too damn hard, I can't even begin to explain to you how much I gonna miss you. When... FRIENDS [Chandler walks in] Joey: You know, with that goatee, you kinda look like Satan. FRIENDS I can't believe it. I mean, I think it's great. For him, she might be able to do better. FRIENDS [Reading Rachel's romance novel.] Monica: 'Throbbing pens? Don't wanna be around when he writes with... FRIENDS [Ross coming back from bathroom, getting ready to play poker with Rachel] Ross: Your money is mine, ... FRIENDS Mr Heckles: quiet, your disturbing my birds!Rachel: you dont have birdsMr Heckles: i could have bird... FRIENDS [to Ross] Chandler: You know if your not careful, you could not get married at all this year. FRIENDS I just feel lucky to be able to do things other than that character, you know, other than Rachel (he... FRIENDS Ross: First divorce: wife's hidden sexuality, not my fault. Second divorce: said the wrong name at t... FRIENDS Chandler: Ding dong, the psycho's gone. FRIENDS Chandler: I'm not so good with the advice... Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment? FRIENDS [to Ross] Chandler: You know if your not careful, you could not get married at all this year. FRIENDS Joey : Pheebs, you wanna help? Phoebe : Oh, I wish I could, but I really don't want to. FRIENDS Chandler: Ew, ew, ew, ew ew ew ew ew. Ugly Naked Guy got a Thighmaster. FRIENDS Rachel: Oh my God. I've become my father. I've been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn't... FRIENDS Joey: But I-I-I can't stay too long, I gotta get up early for a commercial audition tomorrow and I g... FRIENDS [Ross is trying to cheer Chandler up who won't get out of his sweatpants] Ross: C'mon man, just... FRIENDS Misery becomes your friend when your best friends prevail. ANDONI GARCIA Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have y... 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EVAN SPIEGEL Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust. ELYN SAKS If you miss a smile of a friend you will feel how harder it’s. Distance is no matter keep friends ... PALITHA ARIYARATHNA We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change. UNKNOWN We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something... NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't the... DEYTH BANGER If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your... MARILYN MANSON Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from ho... JENNIFER ANISTON Some friends are worth more than gold.
Some friends are worth crying for.
Some friends are worth pra... SALLY A ACQUAH Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, OLASOT Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food. ANONYMOUS I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m... MATTHEW WEINER To be happy is like a good time with your friends, to be sad is to be wating for your friends ANDREW RIDINGS Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbeli... RAY BRADBURY When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you trea... MARILYN MONROE Having friends that support your negative behavior is not true friendship. You need friends that upl... NERISSA IRVING You remembered your friends but what you didn't know was that "friends" are just as close as enemies JUSTIN JONES If your best friends do not read books, they read you. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If your best friends do not read books, they reads you. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. -... SUZANNE COLLINS When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with ... JOHN CENA It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. GLORIA NAYLOR It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. BETTE MIDLER It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. BERNARD MELTZER If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. GEORGE GURDJIEFF Your friends are one of the factors that make YOU. So chose your friends wisely. When you chose, the... CLYDE A. JOHNSON When you want to talk to your best friend and tell them the good things that are happening in your l... NICK WOLF If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to... KAY PANABAKER Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy ha... MARK HYMAN Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.' MAHATMA GANDHI Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and yo... MARIA CALLAS 'Graves,' he said, 'I want to be your friend.' I started to protest we already were friends, but he ... EARL GRAVES How can you owe a friend? Friends stand by each other through everything. MACGYVER It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your... GINA BARRECA And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie. KATHRYN STOCKETT Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social medi... GRETCHEN RUBIN A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are t... JENNIFER WILSON If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. DESMOND TUTU If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. MOSHE DAYAN If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. MOSHE DAYAN If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. MOSHE DAYAN Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all. HARK HERALD SARMIENTO Look at your 5 closest friends. Those five friends are who you are. If you don't like who you are... WILL SMITH Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't wor... MARILYN MONROE Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a... ROBERT SCOBLE Be the friend whom you wish to befriend; before making friends, be one. JALAL ERRAZI If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot... SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot... SAINT AUGUSTINE Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does bec... J.A. REDMERSKI If you miss a tackle correctly -- and I know that sounds funny -- you can get some help from your fr... GENE CHIZIK After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends... DEYTH BANGER
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NICHOLAS SPARKS If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that cou... NICHOLAS SPARKS I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Every great love starts with a great story... NICHOLAS SPARKS True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. NICHOLAS SPARKS They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ... NICHOLAS SPARKS The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o... NICHOLAS SPARKS I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then... NICHOLAS SPARKS People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo... NICHOLAS SPARKS There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of... NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you want a cookie? - What? - A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one? - No. -... NICHOLAS SPARKS First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th... NICHOLAS KLEIN You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti... NICHOLAS SPARKS Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. NICHOLAS SPARKS avoid you. I want to avoid you.” He stared at her, plainly confused. NICHOLAS SPARKS her jeans and sleeveless blouse. NICHOLAS SPARKS Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume. Quando usado no jardim, servi... NICHOLAS SPARKS Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible. NICHOLAS SPARKS blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few NICHOLAS SPARKS additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos... NICHOLAS SPARKS Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta... NICHOLAS SPARKS But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa... NICHOLAS SPARKS Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th... NICHOLAS SPARKS Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel... NICHOLAS SPARKS You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�... NICHOLAS SPARKS I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li... NICHOLAS SPARKS - You've been through a lot in your life. - Too much, I sometimes think. - But you keep go... NICHOLAS SPARKS Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca... NICHOLAS SPARKS Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y... NICHOLAS SPARKS She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her. NICHOLAS SPARKS These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad. NICHOLAS SPARKS