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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- 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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
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 only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
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
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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