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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Friendship

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

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

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

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

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are my Family
- Karen Drucker

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie