A friend is a present you give yourself. ...
by Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

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

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

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

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

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

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

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

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

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

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

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Time is my friend.
- 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

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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