Thoughts by Anatole Broyard

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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

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.
- Dale Carnegie

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

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

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

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