Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
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True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence,
is a continuing imperative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This world of ours... must avoid becoming
a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because we fear the responsibility for our actions,
we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves.
Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence,
we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"
not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state,
whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.
- Butler D. Shaffer
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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)
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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 a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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