Thoughts by Isabel Norton

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In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

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