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βFriendship is the marriage of souls and this marriage is subject to divorceβ
β Voltaire
βThe earth is what we all have in commonβ
β Wendell Berry
βThe quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.β
β Robin Sharma
βThe universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soulβ
β Chrysippus
βThe deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separatenessβ
β Gabriel Marcel
βIf you have one true friend you have more than your shareβ
β Thomas Fuller
βWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the lightβ
β Helen Keller
βPeople dont care how much you know until they know how much you careβ
β John Maxwell
βBe slow in choosing a friend slower in changingβ
β Benjamin Franklin
βListen to the mustnts child listen to the donts listen to the shouldnts the impossibles the wonts then listen to me anything can happenβ
β Shel Silverstein
βNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfactionβ
β E.O. Wilson
βA book is a dream that you hold in your handβ
β Neil Gaiman
βWhat is food to one man is bitter poison to othersβ
β Lucretius
βBetween friends there is no need of justice.β
β Aristotle
βThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βMany people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.β
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βA friend in power is a friend lostβ
β William Hazlitt
βYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.β
β Wayne Dyer
βThe truth is everyone is going to hurt you you just have to find the ones worth suffering forβ
β Bob Marley
βThe most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βFriendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunityβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βWherever you are and whatever you do be in loveβ
β Rumi
βA companion's words of persuasion are effective.β
β Homer
βA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.β
β Saint Jerome
βOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.β
β Euripides
βConnection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our livesβ
β Brene Brown
βI find that friendship is like wine raw when new ripened with ageβ
β Thomas Jefferson
βWe 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.β
β James Boswell
βWithout a certain amount of laziness you do not know how to love your friendsβ
β Andre Maurois
βGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health but in men on a well-formed characterβ
β Democritus
βI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy themβ
β John Stuart Mill
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughβ
β Maya Angelou
βTo like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.β
β Sallust
βA life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great onesβ
β Roald Dahl
βAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with successβ
β Oscar Wilde
βA day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.β
β Winnie the Pooh
βNo distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.β
β Robert Southey
βWear a friend as a coat against the storm.β
β Thiruvalluvar
βA stranger is just a friend I have not met yetβ
β Will Rogers
βWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.β
β George Eliot
βFriendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.β
β C.S. Lewis
βIf you go looking for a friend you will find them very scarce if you go out to be a friend you will find them everywhereβ
β Zig Ziglar
βFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a personβ
βA friend is as it were a second selfβ
β Cicero
βFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.β
βWherever you go there you areβ
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βA team is not a group of people that work together a team is a group of people that trust each otherβ
β Simon Sinek
βA 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.β
β Quintus Ennius
βWhen they go low we go highβ
β Michelle Obama
βOne who looks for a friend without faults will have none.β
β Hasidic Proverb
βBe courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well triedβ
β George Washington
βAll flourishing is mutualβ
β Robin Wall Kimmerer
βWhen two people relate to each other authentically the between is where god dwellsβ
β Martin Buber
βWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveβ
β Winston Churchill
βFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.β
βNo one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die awayβ
β Terry Pratchett
βFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.β
β Baltasar GraciΓ‘n
βA true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly crackedβ
β David Tyson
βYou yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affectionβ
β Sharon Salzberg
βLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βCan miles truly separate you from friends if you want to be with someone you love you are already thereβ
β Richard Bach
βIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our ownβ
β Charlotte Bronte
βYou need to learn how to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every dayβ
β Elizabeth Gilbert
βHave no friends not equal to yourself.β
β Confucius
βA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic communityβ
β Aldo Leopold
βA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies the man who never reads lives only oneβ
β George R.R. Martin
βMy friends are my estate.β
β Emily Dickinson
βFriendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of lonelinessβ
β Dag Hammarskjold
βThe friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays awayβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.β
β Epicurus
βThe quality of your life is the quality of your relationshipsβ
β Tony Robbins
βThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.β
β Leo Tolstoy
βStay is a charming word in a friends vocabularyβ
β Louisa May Alcott
βA faithful friend is the medicine of lifeβ
β Ovid
βThe only way to have a friend is to be one.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βA person is a person no matter how smallβ
β Dr Seuss
βStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossibleβ
β Francis of Assisi
βIf you wish to be loved, love.β
β Epictetus
βA friend is, as it were, a second self.β
β Marcus Tullius Cicero
βHe who has begun has half done dare to be wise beginβ
β Horace
βIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinkingβ
β Haruki Murakami
βShe 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 orderβ
β Toni Morrison
βTrue friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.β
βIf the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nailβ
β Abraham Maslow
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsβ
β Rachel Carson
βLife begins at the end of your comfort zoneβ
β Neale Donald Walsch
βFriends are as companions on a journey who ought to aid each otherβ
β Pythagoras
βA friend in need is a friend indeedβ
β Sophocles
βThe best mirror is an old friendβ
β George Herbert
βAn 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.β
β Buddha
βIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.β
β Albert Einstein
βA true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care to acquireβ
β La Rochefoucauld
βFriends are Gods way of taking care of usβ
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeβ
β Mary Oliver
βThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.β
β Thomas Aquinas
βA doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemyβ
β Aesop
βThe face of the other instructs meβ
β Emmanuel Levinas
βThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendshipβ
βWisdom cannot be imparted wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishnessβ
β Hermann Hesse
βIn prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friendsβ
β John Churton Collins
βThe first duty of love is to listenβ
β Paul Tillich
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesβ
β Viktor Frankl
βIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of youβ
β Deepak Chopra
βThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the churchβ
β Tertullian
βBe slow to fall into friendship but when you are in continue firm and constantβ
β Socrates
βToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening earβ
β Leo Buscaglia
βIf 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.β
βLife is nothing without friendship.β
βRare as true love is true friendship is rarer stillβ
β Jean de La Fontaine
βGood friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal lifeβ
β Mark Twain
βWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.β
βI no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friendsβ
β Walt Whitman
βStrength lies in differences not in similaritiesβ
β Stephen Covey
βIt is not that I am mad it is only that my head is different from yoursβ
β Diogenes
βSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from oneselfβ
β Parker Palmer
βThe only way to have a friend is to be oneβ
βIn 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.β
βWhat is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still livesβ
β Rupi Kaur
βFriendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with anotherβ
β George Santayana
βYou cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equalityβ
β Logan Pearsall Smith
βDo 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 friendβ
β Albert Camus
βBe impeccable with your word speak with integrityβ
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beastβ
βWear a friend as a garment that fits closely, not loosely.β
βFriendship is a sheltering treeβ
β Samuel Taylor Coleridge
βA faithful friend is the medicine of life.β
β Unknown
βA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourselfβ
β Jim Morrison
βNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experiencedβ
β David Attenborough
βIn the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let goβ
β Jack Kornfield
βWhen a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.β
βEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picturesβ
β Henry Ward Beecher
βThe only thing that is constant is changeβ
β Heraclitus
βGo often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.β
βIt is a joy to be hidden and disaster not to be foundβ
β Donald Winnicott
βOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measureβ
β Marianne Williamson
βThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselvesβ
β Thomas Merton
βOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understoodβ
β Seneca
βThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former selfβ
β Ernest Hemingway
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityβ
β Simone Weil
βThe most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attentionβ
βGood friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.β
βI define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.β
βThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.β
β Jane Austen
βWithout friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.β
βTrue friends stab you in the front.β
βA 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.β
β William Shakespeare
βLots 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.β
β Oprah Winfrey
βProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them.β
β Publilius Syrus
βThere 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.β
βYou become responsible forever for what you have tamed.β
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βFortune favors the boldβ
β Virgil
βA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.β
βNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.β
βHave friends. 'Tis a second existence.β
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to knowβ
β Pema Chodron
βWe cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but changeβ
β Sheryl Sandberg
βWe have two ears and one mouth so we should listen more than we sayβ
β Zeno of Citium
βThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one pageβ
β Augustine of Hippo
β Robert Frost
βLet us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossomβ
β Marcel Proust
βThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friendβ
βReal friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare β and precious as a pearl.β
β Taras Shevchenko
βFor the world is only the desert which needs the oasis of friendshipβ
β Hannah Arendt
βBe with those who help your beingβ
βI may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to beβ
β Douglas Adams
βHe who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.β
β Ali ibn Abi Talib
βThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourselfβ
β Thales
βThe only normal people are the ones you do not know very wellβ
β Alfred Adler
βThe bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.β
β William Blake
βYou can love someone and still choose to say goodbyeβ
β Tara Westover
βIt is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from anotherβ
β Nelson Mandela
βAlthough the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves usβ
β Irvin Yalom
βRarely if ever are any of us healed in isolation healing is an act of communionβ
β bell hooks
βSome people go to priests others to poetry I to my friendsβ
β Virginia Woolf
βThe soul is healed by being with childrenβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.β
β Dalai Lama
βIf you judge people you have no time to love themβ
β Mother Teresa
βYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other peopleβ
β Dale Carnegie
βFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.β
βA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of historyβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformedβ
β Carl Jung
βA true friend stabs you in the front.β
βLife is nothing without friendshipβ
βA true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly and takes all patientlyβ
β William Penn
βThe power plant does not have energy it generates energyβ
β Brendon Burchard
βThe good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrowβ
β Alan Alda
βOf all the means to ensure happiness the most important is the acquisition of friendsβ
βEach friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arriveβ
β Anais Nin
βFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.β
βWe are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to beβ
β Kurt Vonnegut
βIt is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriagesβ
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.β
βFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing itβ
β Thomas More
βWhen 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.β
β Paulo Coelho
βTo love is to recognize yourself in anotherβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βWe are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff outβ
β Ray Bradbury
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeksβ
β John Muir
βGrowth begins when we start to accept our own weaknessβ
β Jean Vanier
βA friend to all is a friend to none.β
βLet us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.β
βThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedβ
β Adam Grant
βIt is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.β
βOne friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possibleβ
β Henry Brooks Adams
βHave no friends not equal to yourselfβ
βWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindnessβ
β Jean-Jacques Rousseau
βOld friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.β
β John Selden
βYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.β
β Jim Rohn
βThink where glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friendsβ
β William Butler Yeats
βThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insaneβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βI have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giverβ
βThe greatest thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of lovingβ
β Fred Rogers
βSilence is a source of great strength in friendship.β
β Lao Tzu
βThe essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.β
β David Storey
βOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relativesβ
βIn the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friendsβ
β Martin Luther King Jr
βThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty made bearable by friendsβ
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βI 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.β
βA leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done they will say we did it ourselvesβ
βOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.β
βLead me O God and thou O Destiny to the goal which you have ordained for meβ
β Cleanthes
βIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.β
β Samuel Johnson
βFriendship is the marriage of the soul.β
βYour friend is your needs answeredβ
β Khalil Gibran
βA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthdayβ
β Erma Bombeck
βYou do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friendsβ
β Desmond Tutu
βFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world togetherβ
β Woodrow Wilson
βFriendship is one mind in two bodies.β
β Mencius
βLife has no blessing like a prudent friend.β
βEven 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 skyβ
β Hafiz
βWe can do hard thingsβ
β Glennon Doyle
βWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselvesβ
β Angeles Arrien
βFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.β
βThe endearing elegance of female friendshipβ
βMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.β
βBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.β
β Plato
βOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can goβ
β T.S. Eliot
βYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time withβ
βFriendship doubles joys and halves griefsβ
β Francis Bacon
βI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.β
βThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudeβ
β William James
βThe most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peopleβ
β Theodore Roosevelt
βWhat cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the selfβ
β John Bowlby
βThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformityβ
β Rollo May
βIf you judge people, you have no time to love them.β
βSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.β
βIt is the little things citizens do that is what will make the difference my little thing is planting treesβ
β Wangari Maathai
βWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who have shared our painβ
β Henri Nouwen
βThe purpose of life is to use our gifts in the service of othersβ
βBooks are a uniquely portable magicβ
β Stephen King