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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by James Francis Byrnes.
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- 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
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
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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
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)
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
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
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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