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I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I don't like giving or receiving gifts because I don't like that initial reaction. Although I do enjoy the love and the family aspect of Christmas, and I love eating with my family and friends and reconnecting with them.

In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.