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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
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
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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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
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
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
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
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 one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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 not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
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)
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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