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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard 
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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