Friendship

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  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
        Robert Louis Stevenson   Best?
  • If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
        Charlotte Bronte   Best?
  • Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
        Charles Spurgeon   Best?
  • The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
        Sallust   Best?
  • Friends have all things in common.
        Plato   Best?
  • We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
        Mortimer Adler   Best?
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
        Honore De Balzac   Best?
  • True friendship is never serene.
        Marie de Rabutin-Chantal   Best?
  • You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
        Jo Coudert   Best?
  • To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
        Charles M. Schwab   Best?
  • False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
        Richard Burton   Best?
  • Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
        Jawaharlal Nehru   Best?
  • Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
        Michael McClary   Best?
  • Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
        Thomas Jones   Best?
  • Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
        Tryon Edwards   Best?
  • A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
        Henri Nouwen   Best?
  • I once jumped off a bridge then all my friends did too because I'm a trend setter.
        Emperor MAR   Best?
  • On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
        General Douglas MacArthur   Best?
  • In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
        Henri Cartier-Bresson   Best?
  • A hedge between keeps friendship green.
        German Proverb   Best?
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
        Adam Clayton Powell Jr.   Best?
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
        Ray Bradbury   Best?
  • Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
        Robert Sternberg   Best?
  • Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
        Amy Bloom   Best?
  • What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.
        Thomas Paine   Best?
  • Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.
        David B. Haight   Best?
  • When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
        J. Krishnamurti   Best?
  • With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
        Plato   Best?

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