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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis 
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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)
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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 with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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 friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
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