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Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.
I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.
Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.
Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.
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.
Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
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.
Your friends love you anyway.
Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.
You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me
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?
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.
In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.
It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
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.
I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.
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.
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.
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.
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
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.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
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.
It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was a good dog to be with. She was my pal. We enjoyed being with each other. I don't know that you can ask for much more.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
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.
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
Letters of friendship require no study.
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
I am I because my little dog knows me.
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.
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.
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
A friend married is a friend lost.
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.
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.
Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.
I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences.
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.
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed.
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.