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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

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

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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

If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

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

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

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.

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

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

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

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

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

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