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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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 based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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)
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)
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
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 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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