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I hope you like these Henry Adams quotes from my collection of quotes about life.
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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
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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- 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
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -
YOU get to choose how you use it. T
here is no way that your life is "supposed" to be.
Your parents had their vision for your life.
Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,
and even the family next door have their ideas
of how you should live your life.
What about YOUR vision for your life?
What do YOU want?
YES, it matters what you want.
YES you can have what you want.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- 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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
"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
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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 get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
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
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
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