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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Steel.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men admire the man who can organize
their wishes and thoughts
in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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 dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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