Sunday, November 23, 2008

friendship quotes

My friends are my estate.~Emily Dickinson

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.~Walter Winchell

Friendship is unnecessary,
like philosophy, like art...
It has no survival value;
rather is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.~Anais Nin

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.~Aristotle

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.~Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~Albert Caymus

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.~Abraham Lincoln

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ~La Rochefoucauld

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you,and still likes you."-Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." - Jewish saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." - Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracian

"Friendship needs no words..."- Dag Hammarskjold.

"Friends are the sunshine of life." - John Hay (1871)

"The best mirror is an old friend." -George Herbert

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-Walter Winchell

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous

Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end." -- Robert Alan

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love quotes

"If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous

"A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Guy De Maupassant

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin

"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
-Anne Bradstreet

"The best proof of love is trust." -Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich Fromm

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu

If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Guy De Maupassant

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin

"Love builds bridges where there are none." -R. H. Delaney

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton

"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
-Anne Bradstreet

"The best proof of love is trust." -Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anonymous

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." -Smiley Blanton

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anonymous

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Hellen Keller

"Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"-Richard Bach

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." -Mistinguette

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu


Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
~ Mother Teresa

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion
that each include the other,
each is enriched by the other.
~ Felix Adler

Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
~ Steve Winwood


Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle


Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
~ Benjamin Disraeli


Find the person who will love you because of your differences and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
~ Leo Buscaglia


Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger


To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu


The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel


Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us.
~ Thomas Trahern


Love is always bestowed as a gift --
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia


It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
~ William Thackeray


Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
~ Fulton J. Sheen


We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place
in ourselves for those who love us.
~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux


Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard


The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
~ Lord Byron


We are all born for love...
it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Disraeli


To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell


We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch


May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
~ L.O. Baird


Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
~ Mother Teresa


The dedicated life is the life worth living.
You must give with your whole heart.
~ Anne Dillard


Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen


What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
~ Henry Ward Beecher


Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones


The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not importrnity.
~ Helen Hayes
ant-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of ete

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