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What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- 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
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This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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