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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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 
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
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
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- 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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
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
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
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
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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