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Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- 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
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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 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
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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)
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
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, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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)
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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