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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Jane Austen.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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)
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
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
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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 will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
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
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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)
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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