Quotes about Friendships/Relationships
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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” |
-David Viscott |
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“Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.” |
-Rick Warren |
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"The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.” |
-Brian Tracy |
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"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” |
-Maya Angelou |
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“We're never more vulnerable than when we trust someone---but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy." |
-Unknown |
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"Immature love
says: `I love you because I need you’. |
-Erich Fromm |
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"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." |
-Unknown |
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"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." |
-Len Wein |
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." |
-Joseph Addison |
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"When just being together is more important than what you do, you are with a friend. " |
-Unknown |
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"He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." |
-Samuel Johnson |
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"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." |
-William Hazlitt |
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"We love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel." |
-Irwin Federman |
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." |
-Samuel Johnson |
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"The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it." |
-Sylvia Bremer |
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." |
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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"Don't love life, love the people in your life. After all, that's what makes your life." |
-Andrea Stier |
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." |
-Albert Schweitzer |
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"Good friendships are fragile and precious things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing." |
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"It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it." |
-Agnes Repplier |
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but can never have their hearts but by giving his own." |
-Thomas Wilson |
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"A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are." |
-Anonymous |
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"How far we travel in life matters far less than the people we meet on the way." |
- Unknown |
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"Love is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a friend." |
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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"If you are blessed with a friend, you are blessed for life.....as I was with mine. A true friend is there for you in times of need, even when the rest of the world seems to have left you behind. I hope I can be such a friend, because I know I treasure the friends I have." |
- Unknown |
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"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are." |
- Unknown |
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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold this world together." |
- Woodrow Wilson |
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"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground." |
- Stephen R. Covey |
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"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world." |
- Aristotle |
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"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life." |
- Sarah Ellis, British Missionary (1812-1872) |
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"It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset." |
- Erynn Miller |
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"No matter where you go or who you become, never forget who helped you get there. There's never a wrong time to pick up a phone or send a message telling your friends how much you miss them or how much you love them." |
- Unknown |
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"The better part of one's life consists of friendships." |
- Abraham Lincoln |
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness...that is a friend who cares." |
- Henri Nouwen |
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"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk." |
- Thomas Moore |
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"He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." |
- Samuel Johnson |
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"It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel." |
- Unknown |
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"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold it, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but mostly it will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessivly, and the relationship slips away and is lost." |
- Kahlil Jamison |
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"Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile, who finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So when you are lonely, remember it's true, that somebody somewhere is thinking of you." |
- Unknown |
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"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you, even when you are fooling everyone else." |
- Unknown |
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"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." |
- William Hazlitt |
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." |
- Len Wein |
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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." |
- Victor Hugo |
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five REAL friends, you've had a great life." |
- Lee Iacocca |
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"A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself." |
- Frank Crane |
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity." |
- Ulysses S. Grant |
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