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Please enjoy these inspirational quotes by Madame Swetchine.
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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 is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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)
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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 leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- 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
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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.
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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