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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- 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 sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
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
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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
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