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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
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
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- 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
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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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 must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- 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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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