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May you find great value in these Friendships quotes and sayings.
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
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
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