Friends Quotes - Page 33

• That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Family, People

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Noses, Picks

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.5, Penguin

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• It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

  Willa Cather

  Inspiring, Hurt, Forgiving

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.37, Vintage

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• I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humor

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• 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.

  William James

  Life, Friendship, Littles

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Loss, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.336, Library of America

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• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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• Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.

  Robert Adams

  Happiness, Joy, Trying

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• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Family, Wife

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• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

  Leo Szilard

  Memories, Years, Solitude

  "The Voice of the Dolphins: And Other Stories". Book by Leo Szilard, 1961.

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• I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Business, Jealous, Annoyed

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wisdom, Hate, Intelligent

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• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Karma, Pride, Thinking

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• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Steven Tyler

  Beautiful, Winter, Journey

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• No friendship is an accident.

  O. Henry

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic

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• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Tom Waits

  Pain, Real, Beer

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

  Emma Watson

  Nice, Fame, Curious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

  Mario Puzo

  Friendship, Inspiring, Government

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• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

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• Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teacher, Pleasure, Advantage

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Should, Ceremony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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