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Please enjoy these Anne Lamott quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
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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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
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- 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
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 magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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