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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by James Fenimore Cooper.
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
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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
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.
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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