 Hello all! I was just looking through all of the quotes I have collected and I realized (Wow, I have no life!) how many I have, so I decided to post them here for the heck of it! Enjoy!
Friend Quotes
"Friendships multiply joys and divide grief."
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion...who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing--and face with us the reality of our powerlessness--that is the friend who really cares."
"A little friendship, a little sympathy, a little socialbility, a little human toil...is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."
"There's a miracle called friendship that dwells within the heart, and you don't know how it happens or how it gets its start...but the happiness it brings you always gives a special lift, and you realize that friendship is God's most precious gift!"
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
"It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship...As I approach a time in my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset."
"Friendship...is the golden thread that ties the heart of the world."
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to acquire."
"True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in the world. Only between like natures can friendships be altogether worthy and enduring."
"There are some friends you know you will have for the rest of your life. You're welded together by love, trust, respect, or loss--or...simple embarassment."
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
"..."Friend" covers degress of affection ranging from that which emerges from constant (and often mindless) proximity to that which emerges from the deepest consonances of thought and character."
"Friendship is almost always a union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots."
"Soul-friendships are the safety net of the heart."
"A friend is a person who tells you all the nice things you always knew about yourself."
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."
"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."
"Love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
"Feelings are the connective tissue of friendship."
"To the ancients, friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue."
"Friendship is far more delicate than love."
"Friendship is love made bearable."
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age."
"From the rocking horse to the rocking chair, friendship keeps teaching us about being human."
"The best mirror is an old friend."
"Show me his friends and the man I shall know."
"The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there's someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who's there for life."
"May the friends of our youth be the companions of our old age."
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
"Friendship is a plant which must often be watered."
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop there is at least a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
"If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article."
"...generosity is the essence of friendship."
"Happiness is the by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
"Being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own history. And a time to pick up all the pieces when it's all over."
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."
"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much healing as any other fragile and precious thing."
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things. The nearer you come to a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship."
"It's not what you say, but how you say it that makes all the difference in human relationships."
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
"I think there is a thread that runs through each friendship and keeps it going, no words necessary. Each knows what the other knows about him, through good times and bad."
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
"Real friends have no problem with silence."
"You have to laugh and cry over and over again with someone before you feel comfortable."
"We were young together. We grew old. Our children became adults. But what was between us never really changed, though we each changed so much."
"Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought."
"A truly perfect relationship is one which each party leaves great tacts unknown in the other party."
"The best thing to hold onto in this world is each other."
"Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there."
"Through knowing her I became a better person, and she said the same of me."
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself."
"I guess I have been hiding...Most of my life, mostly from myself. But you...you keep blowing my cover! You keep showing me myself."
"I can no longer remain as I was...you have led me to the sunny side, where growth is a matter of course."
"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."
"Friendship...can take different forms. It can run like a river, quietly and sustainingly through life; it can be an intermittent sometime thing; or it can explode like a meteor, altering the atmosphere so that nothing ever feels or looks the same again."
"...thinking about our friends and our friendships forces an encounter with the ongoing evolution of one's life."
"Life is a chronicle of friendship. Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep hearts strong for life."
"And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you fell worst, remind you of your strengths when you feel weak."
"Best friends...show us we have separate lives. They offer us affection solely for who we are, surprise us with the scope of another's existence..."
"There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family."
"...no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
"One sees much more in a friend."
"It's the friends that call you up at 4 a.m. that matter."
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
"There were equal measures of comfort and amusement in our communications; I think it is safe to say that we delighted in one another. She used to laugh at my stories until she wept, and I tried to take her sound advice to heart."
"Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly."
"One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend."
"Happiness is having a friend to curl up with."
"Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
"Do not protect yourself by a fence but, rather by your friends."
""Why did you do all this for me?" He asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing.""
"Everyone needs help from everyone."
""Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "Is a very comforting thing to have.""
"...the best relief from life was the presence of a friend who seldom asked us for more than we could give."
"Friends seem to be like aspirin: we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better but they do."
"Friendship takes fear from the heart."
"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."
"It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."
"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothin'."
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in their worth and choice."
"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
"The friends of our friends are our friends."
"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together."
"Friendship? Yes, please."
Quotes On Life
"Our strength grows out of our weakness."
"Optimism is a cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though it’s in hot water up to its nose."
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; and nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
"When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out."
"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
"Troubles are like babies. They only grow bigger by nursing."
"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"The doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother."
"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything."
"Youth is a gift of nature. Age is a work of art."
"Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still."
"Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
"A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on."
"Some of us are like wheelbarrows – only useful when pushed, and very easily upset."
"Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
"Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it."
"You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching, and love like it’s never going to hurt."
"The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."
"You can’t be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing."
"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."
"The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
"Attitude defies limitations and exceeds expectation."
"One joy shatters a hundred grief’s."
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
"In the game of life, heredity deals the hand, and society makes the rules but you can still play your own cards."
"A kick in the rear is a step forward."
"If you always keep your face to the sunshine, you’ll never see the shadows!" "We cannot direct the wind...but we can adjust the sails." Source Unknown
"Don’t look back unless you plan to go that way."
"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sorrow."
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
"What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world...the butterfly knows is only the beginning."
"Better slow down, don’t dance so fast, time is short and the music won’t last."
"Excellence is not an art, it’s a habit."
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
"I never feel age...if you have creative work, you don’t have age or time."
"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper."
"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried his job."
"In the space age, the most important space is between the ears."
"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t."
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity."
"When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness."
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know to answer but wish we didn’t."
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."
"Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around."
"Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn’t know you left open."
"You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough."
"It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts."
"The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost."
"My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil."
"The best career advice given to the young is ‘find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.’"
"He who knows others is clever; he who knows himself is enlightened."
"Age is not important unless you’re cheese."
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
"The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school."
"I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
"Laughter is the sun that drives the winter from the human face."
"It is hard to beat a person who never gives up."
"People who live in glass houses...dress in the basement."
"Catch a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime."
"You never know how much you like a place until you go away."
"Losers let it happen. Winners make it happen."
"Ignorance is bliss for those who want misery, misery loves company, is that why all the stupid people hang out together?"
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?"
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
"Isn’t it weird that day by day nothing seems to change, but over time everything is different?"
Quotes on Love
"After the verb ‘to love’, ‘to help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world."
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