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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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)
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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