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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
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
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 best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
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
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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
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