Friendship

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Alice Duer Miller

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine


Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Robert Brault

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Duer Miller

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

John Leonard

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

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

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Emil Ludwig

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Samuel Pepys

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Toni Morrison

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake

Anne Lamott

"You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp."

Anne Lamott

G.K. Chesterton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

G.K. Chesterton

Faith

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Edwin Louis Cole

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

Age

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Maurice Chevalier

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Bette Midler

Age considers; youth ventures.

Rabindranath Tagore

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Jim Fiebig

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Bill Vaughan

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

Ray Bradbury

"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Ray Bradbury

Stephenie Meyer

"I couldn't let you walk away from me. It hurts just to imagine it."

Stephenie Meyer

Plato

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light"

Plato

Tim Burton

"Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?"

Tim Burton

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

Anatole France

Max Lucado

"A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. Roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses. "

Max Lucado

Joanne Harris

"I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant."

"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive."

"A thing named is a thing tamed."

"The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things."

"I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home."

Joanne Harris
"Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored."

"The process of giving is without limits."

"I speak as I must and cannot be silent."

"Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle""

"Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings."

"Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are. "

"A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine."

"It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her."

"That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time"

"The real magic - the magic we'd lived with all our lives, my mother's magic of charms and cantrips, of salt by the door and a red silk sachet to placate the little gods - had turned sour on us that summer, somehow, like a spider that turns from good luck to bad at the stroke of midnight, spinning its web to catch our dreams. And for every little spell of charm, for every card dealt and every rune cast and every sign scratched against a doorway to divert the path of malchance, the wind just blew a little harder, tugging at our clothes, sniffing at us like a hungry dog, moving us here and moving us there."

"A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all."

"Drunkenness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverence. Joy. Gentleness.

Joanne Harris

Karen Maezen Miller

"You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You just have to be happy. ..."

Karen Maezen Miller

Stephenie Meyer

"It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled."

Stephenie Meyer

Ayn Rand

"I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved, that is the unanswered in my life."

Ayn Rand

Jeffrey Eugenides

"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. "

Jeffrey Eugenides

Haruki Murakami

"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than one or two such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."

Haruki Murakami

On Friendship

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

Marlene Dietrich

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Donna Roberts

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

Sarah Dessen

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."

J.K. Rowling

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm 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."

Henri J.M. Nouwen

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

Helen Keller

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rita Mae Brown

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."

Rita Mae Brown

Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

Mark Twain