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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Henri Nouwen.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- 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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
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
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.
Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.
Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made
that didn't work out as you hoped.
Forgive yourself for any financial decisions
that didn't meet your expectations.
Release your regrets if you choose
the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.
Today, choose love.
Choose to love yourself.
Choose to love your life.
Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,
acquaintances, and others who share your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
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