A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- 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
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
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
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 I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
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