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Words of Friendship - Thoughts on Friendship

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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

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Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb PHOTO

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

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

 

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

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- 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

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

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

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

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

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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