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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.
Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.
It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.
Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?
The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.
When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.
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.
The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
The best relationships develop out of friendships.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
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.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.
Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.
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.
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
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.
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
Letters of friendship require no study.
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others.
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.
Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.