Friendship that flows from the heart
by James Fenimore Cooper

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

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 a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

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

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

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

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

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

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 often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

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

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

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)

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

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

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

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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