Too often we underestimate the power
of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have
the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Don't walk ahead, I may not follow.
"Don't walk behind, I may not lead." "Just walk
beside me and be my friend."
Albert Camus
All our young lives we search for
someone to love. We chose partners, change partner. . . all
the while wondering of there's someone, somewhere who might
be searching for us.
Kevin,
The Wonder Years
A person travels the world over
in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
Advice is what we ask for when we
already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
Each of us has a spark of life inside
us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
Immortality lies not in the things
you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Unknown
You can make more friends in two
months by becoming more interested in other people than you
can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
Dale Carnegie
A friend might well be reckoned
the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can be happy without a friend,
nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy
Thomas Fuller
Some people have a large circle
of friends while others have only friends that they like.
Unknown
To give pleasure to a single heart
by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings
in prayer.
Saddi
It is not so much our friends' help
that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help
us.
Epicurus
Never explain - your friends do
not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
God gave us our relatives; thank
God we can choose our friends.
Unknown
Oh, my friend, it's not what they
take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you
have left.
Hubert Humphrey
No one feels another's grief, no
one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach
one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schuber
The greatest sweetener of human
life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,
is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Give me one friend, just one, who
meets the needs of all my varying moods.
Esther M. Clark
A friend is one who knows us, but
loves us anyway.
Father Jerome Cummings
Friends are those rare people who
ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
It is easier to forgive an enemy
than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
We have been friends together in
sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton
A friend is one before whom I may
think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship is a plant of slow
growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to appellation.
George Washington
My best friend is the one who brings
out the best in me!
Henry Ford
Happiness isn't the easiest thing
to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a
friend's smile.
Allison Poler
The best way to chear yourself up
is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
A race is just a race, but a friend
who paces you is a friend for life.
Joseph Franko