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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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis 
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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
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
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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
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 without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
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
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
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)
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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