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âA faithful friend is the medicine of life.â
â Unknown
âWithout friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goodsâ
â Aristotle
âIf you judge people you have no time to love themâ
â Mother Teresa
âTrue friends stab you in the front.â
â Oscar Wilde
âGratitude unlocks the fullness of lifeâ
â Melody Beattie
âI have seen what a laugh can do it can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable even hopefulâ
â Bob Hope
âIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.â
â Samuel Johnson
âThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformityâ
â Rollo May
âIn everyone life at some time our inner fire goes out and a friend fans it into flame againâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfactionâ
â E.O. Wilson
âThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudeâ
â William James
âTrue friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evilsâ
â Baltasar Gracian
âOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relativesâ
â Euripides
âThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanityâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âBe courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well triedâ
â George Washington
âFriends are Gods way of taking care of usâ
â Wayne Dyer
âIf you wish to be loved, love.â
â Epictetus
âI do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much betterâ
â Plutarch
âWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveâ
â Winston Churchill
âYou do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friendsâ
â Desmond Tutu
âIf you have one true friend, you have more than your share.â
â Thomas Fuller
âFriendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunityâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other peopleâ
â Dale Carnegie
âA day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.â
â Winnie the Pooh
âCan miles truly separate you from friends if you want to be with someone you love you are already thereâ
â Richard Bach
âThe only normal people are the ones you do not know very wellâ
â Alfred Adler
âIt is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriagesâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from oneselfâ
â Parker Palmer
âFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world togetherâ
â Woodrow Wilson
âOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.â
âReal friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare â and precious as a pearl.â
â Taras Shevchenko
âNo one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die awayâ
â Terry Pratchett
âThe best mirror is an old friendâ
â George Herbert
âIf you go looking for a friend you will find them very scarce if you go out to be a friend you will find them everywhereâ
â Zig Ziglar
âI have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giverâ
â Maya Angelou
âOf all the means to ensure happiness the most important is the acquisition of friendsâ
â Epicurus
âTo love is to recognize yourself in anotherâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of natureâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âI may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to beâ
â Douglas Adams
âIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friendsâ
â J.K. Rowling
âThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.â
â Jane Austen
âYou need to learn how to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every dayâ
â Elizabeth Gilbert
âFor the world is only the desert which needs the oasis of friendshipâ
â Hannah Arendt
âI define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.â
â Brene Brown
âWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselvesâ
â Angeles Arrien
âYou can love someone and still choose to say goodbyeâ
â Tara Westover
âLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeksâ
â John Muir
âMany people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heartâ
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former selfâ
â Ernest Hemingway
âThe most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attentionâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âThe most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peopleâ
â Theodore Roosevelt
âThe essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.â
â David Storey
âThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friendsâ
âFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.â
â Thomas Aquinas
âThe bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.â
â William Blake
âIt is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from anotherâ
â Nelson Mandela
âA friend in power is a friend lostâ
â William Hazlitt
âIf the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nailâ
â Abraham Maslow
âWhen a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.â
âSome people go to priests others to poetry I to my friendsâ
â Virginia Woolf
âSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.â
â Hermann Hesse
âWhat is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still livesâ
â Rupi Kaur
âLife begins at the end of your comfort zoneâ
â Neale Donald Walsch
âIt is the little things citizens do that is what will make the difference my little thing is planting treesâ
â Wangari Maathai
âWithout a certain amount of laziness you do not know how to love your friendsâ
â Andre Maurois
âI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.â
â Walt Whitman
âBe impeccable with your word speak with integrityâ
â Don Miguel Ruiz
âBe slow in choosing a friend slower in changingâ
â Benjamin Franklin
âThe universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soulâ
â Chrysippus
âThe richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms work love and playâ
â Erik Erikson
âWhat is food to one man is bitter poison to othersâ
â Lucretius
âFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.â
â Khalil Gibran
âLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.â
â Dalai Lama
âWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindnessâ
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âSilence is a source of great strength in friendship.â
â Lao Tzu
âFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.â
â Jean de La Fontaine
âIt is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.â
âTo like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.â
â Sallust
âTrue friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.â
â David Tyson
âWherever you go there you areâ
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âThe greatest sweetness of existence is friendshipâ
â Joseph Addison
âA true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly crackedâ
âFriendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.â
âYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.â
âIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with themâ
â Seneca
âYou cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equalityâ
â Logan Pearsall Smith
âI had a lovers quarrel with the worldâ
â Robert Frost
âFriendship is a sheltering treeâ
â Samuel Taylor Coleridge
âGo often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.â
âYou become responsible forever for what you have tamed.â
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.â
â Helen Keller
âThe better part of ones life consists of friendshipsâ
â Abraham Lincoln
âWe have two ears and one mouth so we should listen more than we sayâ
â Zeno of Citium
âThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing ofâ
â Blaise Pascal
âA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic communityâ
â Aldo Leopold
âWe cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.â
â James Boswell
âIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of youâ
â Deepak Chopra
âWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.â
â George Eliot
âA faithful friend is the medicine of lifeâ
â Ovid
âA true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.â
â Quintus Ennius
âA friend in need is a friend indeedâ
â Sophocles
âWhen we love we always strive to become better than we are when we strive to become better everything around us becomes better tooâ
â Paulo Coelho
âOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measureâ
â Marianne Williamson
âBooks are a uniquely portable magicâ
â Stephen King
âGood friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.â
â Mark Twain
âI find that friendship is like wine raw when new ripened with ageâ
â Thomas Jefferson
âWhat cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the selfâ
â John Bowlby
âWhen two people relate to each other authentically the between is where god dwellsâ
â Martin Buber
âDo not walk behind me I may not lead do not walk in front of me I may not follow just walk beside me and be my friendâ
â Albert Camus
âPeople dont care how much you know until they know how much you careâ
â John Maxwell
âA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.â
â Saint Jerome
âA true friend stabs you in the front.â
âFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.â
â Cicero
âThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty made bearable by friendsâ
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âWaste no more time arguing about what a good friend should be. Be one.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âBe slow to fall into friendship but when you are in continue firm and constantâ
â Socrates
âGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health but in men on a well-formed characterâ
â Democritus
âYou yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affectionâ
â Sharon Salzberg
âEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole skyâ
â Hafiz
âIt is easy enough to be friendly to ones friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.â
â Mahatma Gandhi
âWherever you are and whatever you do be in loveâ
â Rumi
âFriendship is the marriage of souls and this marriage is subject to divorceâ
â Voltaire
âThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdomâ
â Isaac Asimov
âThe only way to have a friend is to be one.â
âThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.â
â Henry David Thoreau
âIt is not that I am mad it is only that my head is different from yoursâ
â Diogenes
âEach friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arriveâ
â Anais Nin
âI no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friendsâ
âThe friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays awayâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one pageâ
â Augustine of Hippo
âYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.â
â Jim Rohn
âWhen we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.â
âMany people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.â
âThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friendâ
âA book is a dream that you hold in your handâ
â Neil Gaiman
âOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.â
âWe are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to beâ
â Kurt Vonnegut
âFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.â
âIn the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let goâ
â Jack Kornfield
âIf you judge people, you have no time to love them.â
âLet us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossomâ
â Marcel Proust
âWear a friend as a garment that fits closely, not loosely.â
â Thiruvalluvar
âMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.â
âAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beastâ
â Buddha
âIn the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friendsâ
â Martin Luther King Jr
âIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.â
âWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughâ
âYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time withâ
âThe good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrowâ
â Alan Alda
âA stranger is just a friend I have not met yetâ
â Will Rogers
âWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesâ
â Viktor Frankl
âThink where glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friendsâ
â William Butler Yeats
âThe earth is what we all have in commonâ
â Wendell Berry
âThe truth is everyone is going to hurt you you just have to find the ones worth suffering forâ
â Bob Marley
âThe power plant does not have energy it generates energyâ
â Brendon Burchard
âThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.â
âMy friends are my estateâ
â Emily Dickinson
âThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourselfâ
â Thales
âWe forfeit three quarters of ourselves in order to be like other peopleâ
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âWhen they go low we go highâ
â Michelle Obama
âFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.â
âBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleâ
â Plato
âWe are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff outâ
â Ray Bradbury
âBe slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.â
âListen to the mustnts child listen to the donts listen to the shouldnts the impossibles the wonts then listen to me anything can happenâ
â Shel Silverstein
âIf you have one true friend you have more than your shareâ
âVulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthinessâ
âThe greatest thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of lovingâ
â Fred Rogers
âThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the churchâ
â Tertullian
âFortune favors the boldâ
â Virgil
âThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.â
âA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.â
âProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them.â
â Publilius Syrus
âIn prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friendsâ
â John Churton Collins
âImmature love says I love you because I need you mature love says I need you because I love youâ
â Erich Fromm
âThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsâ
â Rachel Carson
âLife is nothing without friendshipâ
â Marcus Tullius Cicero
âHave no friends not equal to yourself.â
â Confucius
âI do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there firstâ
â Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
âIf you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was Iâ
â Michel de Montaigne
âConnection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our livesâ
âFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.â
âThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.â
âNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experiencedâ
â David Attenborough
âI have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.â
âA friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.â
â William Shakespeare
âNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to knowâ
â Pema Chodron
âRarely if ever are any of us healed in isolation healing is an act of communionâ
â bell hooks
âLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.â
â Tennessee Claflin
âHave friends. 'Tis a second existence.â
â Baltasar GraciÃĄn
âIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.â
âThe face of the other instructs meâ
â Emmanuel Levinas
âIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.â
âTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeâ
â Mary Oliver
âThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendshipâ
âShe is a friend of my mind she gather me man the pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right orderâ
â Toni Morrison
âA team is not a group of people that work together a team is a group of people that trust each otherâ
â Simon Sinek
âMy friends are my estate.â
âA doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemyâ
â Aesop
âThe soul is healed by being with childrenâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a personâ
âFriendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of lonelinessâ
â Dag Hammarskjold
âAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with successâ
âNo distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.â
â Robert Southey
âFriendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with anotherâ
â George Santayana
âOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.â
âIt is a joy to be hidden and disaster not to be foundâ
â Donald Winnicott
âAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityâ
â Simone Weil
âThe soul is healed by being with children.â
âWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the lightâ
âOne who looks for a friend without faults will have none.â
â Hasidic Proverb
âLet us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.â
âWithout friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.â
âA friend to all is a friend to none.â
âLife is nothing without friendship.â
âGood friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal lifeâ
âThe quality of your life is the quality of your relationshipsâ
â Tony Robbins
âThe purpose of life is to use our gifts in the service of othersâ
â Robin Sharma
âHave no friends not equal to yourselfâ
âA person is a person no matter how smallâ
â Dr Seuss
âWisdom cannot be imparted wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishnessâ
âA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourselfâ
â Jim Morrison
âThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformedâ
â Carl Jung
âAlthough the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves usâ
â Irvin Yalom
âWear a friend as a coat against the storm.â
âIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.â
â Albert Einstein
âAll flourishing is mutualâ
â Robin Wall Kimmerer
âThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedâ
â Adam Grant
âA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of historyâ
âA friend is as it were a second selfâ
âIf you go looking for a friend, you are going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you will find them everywhere.â
âThe only thing that is constant is changeâ
â Heraclitus
âThe first duty of love is to listenâ
â Paul Tillich
âOne friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possibleâ
â Henry Brooks Adams
âAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.â
âA true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly and takes all patientlyâ
â William Penn
âA companion's words of persuasion are effective.â
â Homer
âLots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.â
â Oprah Winfrey
âLots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with youâ
âIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinkingâ
â Haruki Murakami
âI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy themâ
â John Stuart Mill
âFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.â
âA true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care to acquireâ
â La Rochefoucauld
âA wise man proportions his belief to the evidenceâ
â David Hume
âFriendship is one mind in two bodies.â
â Mencius
âIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our ownâ
â Charlotte Bronte
âBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.â
âA friend is, as it were, a second self.â
âA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies the man who never reads lives only oneâ
â George R.R. Martin
âOld friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.â
â John Selden
âThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insaneâ
âYour friend is your needs answeredâ
âFriendship is the marriage of the soul.â
âStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossibleâ
â Francis of Assisi
âRare as true love is true friendship is rarer stillâ
âGrowth begins when we start to accept our own weaknessâ
â Jean Vanier
âThe quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.â
âStrength lies in differences not in similaritiesâ
â Stephen Covey
âThe single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incompleteâ
â Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
âA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthdayâ
â Erma Bombeck
âThe most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.â
âEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picturesâ
â Henry Ward Beecher
âFriendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.â
â C.S. Lewis
âWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who have shared our painâ
â Henri Nouwen
âHe who has begun has half done dare to be wise beginâ
â Horace
âThe only way to have a friend is to be oneâ
âThe endearing elegance of female friendshipâ
âLife has no blessing like a prudent friend.â
âLead me O God and thou O Destiny to the goal which you have ordained for meâ
â Cleanthes
âThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.â
âI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.â
â Rabindranath Tagore
âBetween friends there is no need of justice.â
âA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.â
â Elbert Hubbard
âToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening earâ
â Leo Buscaglia
âFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing itâ
â Thomas More
âNo man is free who is not master of himselfâ
âStay is a charming word in a friends vocabularyâ
â Louisa May Alcott
âFriends are as companions on a journey who ought to aid each otherâ
â Pythagoras
âA leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done they will say we did it ourselvesâ
âMy religion is very simple my religion is kindnessâ
âHave a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.â
â Charles Dickens
âWe cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but changeâ
â Sheryl Sandberg
âThe deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separatenessâ
â Gabriel Marcel
âA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves youâ
âWe can do hard thingsâ
â Glennon Doyle
âThe curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can changeâ
â Carl Rogers
âA life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great onesâ
â Roald Dahl
âOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understoodâ
âBe with those who help your beingâ
âThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselvesâ
â Thomas Merton
âFriendship doubles joys and halves griefsâ
â Francis Bacon
âOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can goâ
â T.S. Eliot
âHe who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.â
â Ali ibn Abi Talib
âNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.â
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