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A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
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
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
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
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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