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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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 sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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