Friends Quotes - Page 32

• There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sight, Sky, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Movie, Past, Reality

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• Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  True Friend, Giving, Receiving

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• The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Ungrateful, Causes

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• We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Want, Talent

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• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  Natalie Wood

  Way, Excited, Feels

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• The loss of friends is a tax on age!

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Loss, Age, Taxes

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• A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.269, Penguin

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• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Powerful, Prayer, Father

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

  Francois Fenelon

  Real, Joy, Faithful

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• Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Woe, Pages, Recompense

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.330

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• none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Soul, Suffering, Unhappy

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• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Freedom, War, Fighting

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

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• It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Race, Adversaries

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.445

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• There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Self, Ideas, Pleasure

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• Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Swings, Views, Tree

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• As we sail through life towards death,
  Bound unto the same port--heaven,--
  Friend, what years could us divide?

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Years, Heaven, Port

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• Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Writing, Phones, Shoes

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 17, 2012

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• Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Common, Reason

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• So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lay Morals".

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• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  Natalie Wood

  Difficult

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• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Spring, Good Friend, Serenity

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• What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiring, Existence, Values

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Kindness, Return

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Buddhist, Men

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