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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
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
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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)
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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)
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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