Friendship is born at that moment
by C. S. Lewis

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis

When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis

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

Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

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

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

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

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

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

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

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

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

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