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Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
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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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- 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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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)
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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 is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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 never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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.
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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