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Please enjoy these Quotes about Winter and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
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 friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- 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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
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