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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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 
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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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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 better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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