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Please enjoy these Morris West quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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
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
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
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 power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
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)
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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