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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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