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Please enjoy these Alan Alda quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational Self
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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