A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
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 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.
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- 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
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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 friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
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
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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