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Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- 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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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
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 that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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