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He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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 best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
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
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
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
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
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
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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 real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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 my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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