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A friend is a present you give yourself. ...
by Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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

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

You can never love without giving.
- 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

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

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

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

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- 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

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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 true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

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 is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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