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Please enjoy these P. J. O`Rourke quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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