He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
- John Lennon
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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 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
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
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
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
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
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
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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