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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by James Francis Byrnes.
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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
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 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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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