Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ... by Mike Murdock

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ...
by Mike Murdock

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

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 should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

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

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

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

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

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Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ...by Mike Murdock

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Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ...
by Mike Murdock