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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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 end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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