"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone;
one should keep his friendships in constant repair."
~ Samuel Johnson
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of
them?"
~ Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
~ Golda Meir
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
~ Mencius
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them
away."
~ Wilson Mizner
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
~ William Butler Yeats
"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
~ Louisa May Alcott
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
~ Amanda Bradley
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
~ Charlotte Bronte
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as
a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration."
~ Pearl S. Buck
"I am a big believer that you have to nourish any
relationship.
I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are
very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have
this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective
and become isolated."
~ Nancy Reagan
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because
without
it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
~ Bernard Meltzer
"A friend is someone who sings your heart's song
back to you when you have forgotten the words."
David Coppola
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to
new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints
on our hearts, and we are never ever the same."
~ Flavia Weedn
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by
another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light."
~ Albert Schweitzer
"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
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"Friendship is like a bank account;
you cannot continue to draw on it
without making a deposit."
~ Nicole Beale
"When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends."
~Helen Steiner Rice
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