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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
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
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Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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 based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- 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
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
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
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Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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