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
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
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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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
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