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Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
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
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship,
of affection, of friendly intercourse,
and I am not made of stone or iron,
so I cannot miss these things without feeling,
as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need.
I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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 be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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