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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- 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
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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 new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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