A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Related topics: Friendship Relationship Movie
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
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- 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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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 friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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
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
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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