Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Quotes - Friendship, Service and Kindness

  • The only way to have a friend is to be one.
  • Friendship is love without its wings
  • The best way to destroy an enemy is to change him into a friend
  • Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path
  • Treat your friends as you do pictures, and place them in their best light.
  • Best friends
  • How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it
  • Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
  • Only a life in service of others is a life worthwhile. –Albert Einstein
  • Your wealth is where your friends are.
  • My very best friends are those who know with out ever being told.
  • The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
  • Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
  • A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
  • A friend is one of the nicest things to have, and one of the best things to be.
  • If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. –Winnie the Pooh
  • My friends have made the story of my life. –Helen Keller
  • Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things.
  • A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
  • A hard stretch of road is always made easier by a good traveling companion.
  • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  • It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
  • If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them; I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
  • A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
  • For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice, no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service
  • No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
  • A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
  • A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
  • A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked!
  • Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
  • Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
  • Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
  • A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
  • No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
  • The road to a friend’s house is never too long.
  • The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
  • Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and be my friend.
  • Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
  • The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
  • A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
  • The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
  • Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
  • Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain, than to have to watch their friend suffer.
  • Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
  • A friend is a present you give to yourself.
  • Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
  • From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.
  • In my friend, I find a second self.
  • Friends Are Treasures
  • There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.
  • The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
  • Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
  • Friendship is forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives
  • Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
  • A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.
  • Life is not so short but there is always time for courtesy
  • Kindness is produced by kindness
  • There’s a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others, Will come back into our own.
  • Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly
  • Let us oft speak kind words to each other…
  • I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody’s need made me blind; but I never have yet felt a tinge of regret for being a little too kind.
  • He who would find a friend without faults will be without friends.
  • Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
  • From quiet homes and first beginnings, Out to undiscovered ends, There’s nothing worth the wear of living, But laughter and love and friends.
  • Better to throw a stone at random than a word
  • A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people that your heart is at home.
  • Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else
  • It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand
  • We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
  • It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
  • Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
  • Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
  • The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
  • A kind heart is a fountain of gladness; making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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