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One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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 knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
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
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
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
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
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
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
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.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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