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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.
I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
It's business inside the ring, but outside it, it's friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
There's such a connection between Vietnam and America, but it should be one of friendship. Not bitterness. Not enemies.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
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 most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.