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I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.
God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.
For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.
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.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
Friendship is communion.
Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.
We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.
I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.
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.
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.
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.
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.
time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.
People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore the risk of heart attack.
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Volunteers are caring friends
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.
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.
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.
What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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.
The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.
It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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.
I'll be your crying shoulder.
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.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
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.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
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.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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.
It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.
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.
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
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.
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.
Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
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.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.