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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
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 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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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