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Please enjoy these John Greenleaf Whittier quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
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 true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
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
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
- Leslie Gore
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Time is carnivorous.
Urgency rips the peaceful flesh from our bones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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