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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh) 
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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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
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
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to 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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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