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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Isabel Norton.
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
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
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
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
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 feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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