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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
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