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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
Let your best be for your friend.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
Make use of your friends by being of use to them.
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Friendship? Yes Please.
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.
The best relationships develop out of friendships.
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.
Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.
Letters of friendship require no study.
In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.
In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.
The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.
Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.
You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."
If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.
