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May these quotes about Friends inspire and motivate you.
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
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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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
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
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
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- 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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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 God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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
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