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A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 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.
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
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
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
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
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
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
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 best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- 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 should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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