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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
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
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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