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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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis 
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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 true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
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 friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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)
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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