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A friend is a present you give yourself. ...
by Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

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

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

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

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

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

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

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

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

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


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