FRIENDSHIP

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“No one has greater love than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends.” – Jesus Christ – John 15:13 – Apostle John – The BIBLE

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

One out of four people in this country is unbalanced.  Think of your three best friends.  If they seem OK—you’re the one! – Ann Landers

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying—“Flee at once—all is discovered!”—They all left town immediately. – Mark Twain

A friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of our grief and bereavement, who can’t tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller

“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness, and little things in between.  Boo was our neighbor.He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, and our lives.” – Scout (Jean Louise Finch) – near conclusion – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Harper Lee

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. – Abraham Lincoln

Loving your enemies may be a lot to ask, but how about treating your friends a little better. – Edward W. Howe…a personal favorite                                                 

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those between people who love the same books. – Irving Stone

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be away from one another.  If we’re in each other’s dreams, we’ll always be together.” – Hobbes – CALVIN & HOBBES – Bill Watterson

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. – Joseph Addison

Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend you hate. – Nikka (age 6)

“They drank from the same glass as one who would drink from the same lily.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney

Friends share their love in time of trouble, not in happiness. – Euripides

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“Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmeity with God?  Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is making himself an enemy of God.” – Disciple James – James 4:4 – The BIBLE

We don’t have to change friends if we understand friends change. – Anonymous   

Friendship is different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintances, friendship is based on love.  Unlike lovers or married couples, it is free of jealousy.  Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. – Stephen Ambrose     

 “A boy’s best friend is his mother.” – Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates) to Janet Leigh (Marion Crane) – PSYCHO – Robert Bloch (Screenplay)

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. – Vic Putnum

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Andrew Carnegie

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. – Pearl Bailey

It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else. – Erma Bombeck

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in honoring the differences, not simply enjoying the similarities. – James L. Frederickson

Love is friendship that has caught fire.  It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.  It is loyalty through good and bad times.  It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness. – Ann Landers

I’ve learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. – Andy Rooney                                             

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. – H. Jackson Browne Jr.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view.” – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all the goods. – Aristotle

There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes

To gather with God’s people in the united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the life of a Christian as prayer. – Martin Luther

Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemies. – Somers White                 

It’s the little things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting. – Todd Rothman                    

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“There are companions ready to crush one another, but there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.” – King Solomon – Prov. 18:24 – The BIBLE

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.  Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.  Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

Talk is not wasted affection.  Affection is never wasted. – Henry W. Longfellow

There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met. – William Butler Yeats

Love is the only force that is capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.

While we have the gift of life, it seems that the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. – Gilda Radner

Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help. – Unknown

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. – G. B. Stern

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood. – Seneca

Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. – Louisa May Alcott

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. – Unknown

The friendships with the world are oft confederacies in vice, or league of pleasures. – Joseph Addison

Loving your enemies may be a lot to ask, but how about treating your friends a little better? – E. W. Howe   

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. – Bill Watterson

I’ve learned that I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way. – Andy Rooney                                               

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibson

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“A friend shows love at all time, and is a brother who is born for times of distress.” – King Solomon – Prov. 17:17 – The BIBLE

Friendship is a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some people go to priests, others to poetry; I go to my friends. – Virginia Woolf

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends.  But to be friend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. – Mohandas Gandhi

There is no friend loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson

True friends use empathy to share the same hardships and challenges that I do – Gary Pulliam

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our own ability to amuse them. – Evelyn Waugh

A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.  If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving—instead of actually getting up and leaving. – Erica Jong

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. – Izaak Walton

Getting to know someone is like investigating a crime scene where the culprit is constantly allowed to rearrange the evidence. – Adnan Mithri

Friend: One who knows all about you but loves you just the same. – Unknown

I don’t like that man.  I am going to have to get to know him better. – Abraham Lincoln

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. – Elizabeth Taylor

Awards become corroded; friends gather no dust. – Jesse Owens     

God gives us our relatives – Thank God we can choose our friends. – Ethel Wells Munford

You can always tell a friend, when you’ve made a fool of yourself and he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Lawrence J. Peter

No man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is one that knows who you are, understands where you’ve been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare

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“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone that exercises faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.” – Apostle John – John 3:16 – The BIBLE

Make friends before you need them. – Unknown

Friendship can only exist between persons of similar interests and points of view.  Men and women by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different point of view. – J. August Strindberg

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I know not where, for so swiftly it flew, the sight could not follow in its flight.  I breathed a song into the air, it fell to earth, I know not where, for who has the sight so keen and strong, that it can follow the flight of a song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. – Henry W. Longfellow

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. – Andy Rooney

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for friendship, if it is for the best ending for one. – Oscar Wilde

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. – Unknown

Passionate love always cools, leaving behind enemies instead of friends. – Gary Pulliam

If we put faith in the resurrection, we can actually gain back all the friends we lost in death. What a reunion that will be! – Gary Pulliam

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison

The one who loves least controls the relationship. – Unknown

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. – Doug Larson