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Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
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
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
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 part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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