A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
by Doris Wild Helmering

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

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

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie