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I hope you find these Carmen Sylva Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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.
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Lots 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.
- Oprah Winfrey
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
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 certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
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)
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- 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
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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