Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
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Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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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