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Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln 
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
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)
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
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
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- 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 make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
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
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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