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
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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
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
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- 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
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
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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)
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
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
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