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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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.
- George Washington
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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
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