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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Related topics: Friendship Relationship Live-By
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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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 has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
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 friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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
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