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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Carmen Sylva.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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)
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- 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
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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
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
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