Wishing to be friends is quick work, by Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
by Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle

Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

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

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 difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

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

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Wishing to be friends is quick work,by Aristotle

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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
by Aristotle