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Please enjoy these Quotes about Senior and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
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
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)
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- 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
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
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
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.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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