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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by James Fenimore Cooper.
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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)
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 dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- 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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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