Abraham Lincoln:
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Alice Walker:
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Anaïs Nin:
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.
Anna Garlin Spencer:
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
Aristotle:
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Audre Lord:
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
C.S. Lewis:
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."
Charlie Daniels:
A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Confucius:
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Cornelia Otis Skinner:
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
The Ape in Me, 1959
David Hume:
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Deng Ming-Dao:
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
E. B. White:
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton:
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Ecclesiasticus 6:14:
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Edgar Watson Howe:
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Elie Wiesel:
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Emily Dickinson:
Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen?-
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs?-between?-
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Emily Dickinson:
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
Epicurus:
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
3rd century BCE
Francis David:
We need not think alike to love alike.
Friedrich Nietzsche:
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
George Eliot:
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Santayana:
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945
George Santayana:
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
The Life of Reason, 1905-1906
George Washington:
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Gore Vidal:
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Henri Nouwen:
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henry David Thoreau:
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau:
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Henry Ward Beecher:
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
It's a Wonderful Life:
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Jane Austen:
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen:
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Jessamyn West:
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Katherine Mansfield:
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
La Rochefoucauld:
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Louisa May Alcott:
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Mark Twain:
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain:
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Marlene Dietrich:
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, jr.:
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
May Sarton:
Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.
Maya Angelou:
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Norman Douglas:
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Oscar Levant:
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Rabindrinath Tagore:
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rachel Carson:
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, adapted:
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 you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Robert Frost:
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Robert Louis Stevenson:
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert McAfee Brown:
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people
. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Samuel Johnson:
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson:
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Sarah Orne Jewett:
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Seneca:
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Shel Silverstein:
Friendship
I've discovered a way to stay friends forever --
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!
Shusha Guppy:
The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend."
Simone Weil:
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
Simone Weil:
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
Sir Francis Bacon:
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Sir Francis Bacon:
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Song of Solomon:
This is my beloved and this is my friend.
Thomas Jefferson:
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Toni Morrison:
I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
speech, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1978
Unknown:
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Unknown:
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
W. Somerset Maugham:
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Warren G. Harding:
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
William Blake:
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake:
The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship.
Zora Neale Hurston:
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
The above are from a quick search, hope they help.
kpan
I've always considered this quote by Sir Issac Newton to be both humble and powerful.
'If I have seen futher;it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants.'
He was refering to Descates but those giants could easily be her parents and friends.Nobody in this world makes it alone,even though Donald Trump would like you to think he did.
Try to learn to advice from other people. You won't live long enough to make all those mistakes yourself. Me
If you yelled for 8 year, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Whew -what a lot of work for nothing! Me
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. Francis Ford
Coppolla.
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combusion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold W Glasow
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Seneca the Younger (Stay humble baby, before you're done you'll need it)
Those who give up essential liberty in exchange for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill
Baby - my personal words are ---- keep a sense of humor, without that --- all is lost.
The only person, situation or opinion that you have within your power to change is yours(self). Do not expect other people to change. Accept them the way they are. Save yourself a lot of frustration. They are as convinced as you are that they are right.
Have fun! Always!
A Cradle Song by William Butler Yeats
The angels are stooping
above your bed;
They wear of trooping
with the whimpering dead.
God's laughing in Heaven
to see you so good;
The sailing Seven are gay with his mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
for I must own
That I shall miss you
when you have grown.
(What that means, young person, is that, when you lose the young flush of youth, you are so sorely missed because you give hope to those of us who have become cynical -- have lost hope. We kiss our babies at night; we look at their peaceful, sweet, flushed faces with such adoration, such great love, as they lie there in such innocense and peace. We hope for them everything that we have not. ourselves, realized. Unfortunately, we can only give them what we, ourselves, were given. Mostly if falls pitifully short of what we'd like. What we hope, and I hope for you, is that you can somehow reach beyond and see the hopes and desires of those who love you. Not for them - but for yourself - and can possibly achieve a peace with who you are and would like to be.
