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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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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
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
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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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering 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
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
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 only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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 destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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