"To know someone here or there
with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or
thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden."
-Goethe
"Silence is the true
friend that never betrays."
-Confucious
"Love is blind, but
friendship closes its eyes."
-unknown
"But friendship is precious,
not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent
arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Don't walk in front
of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk
beside me and be my friend."
-unknown
"An ounce of blood is
worth more than a pound of friendship."
-Spanish Proverb
"Friends are born, not
made."
-Henry Adams
"A friend may well be
reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My father always used
to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've
had a great life."
-Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend
with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb
"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
"There comes that mysterious
meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential."
-Rusty Berkus
"Am I not destroying
my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
"You can make more friends
in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two
years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-Dale Carnegie
"Remember friends as
you pass by,
As you are now so once
was I.
As low as I you once
must be,
Prepare yourself and
follow me."
-Gravestone from the 1800s
"I do not want a friend
Who smiles when I smile
Who weeps when I weep
For my shadow in the
pool
Can do better than that."
-Confucious
"A friend is someone
who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have
forgotten the words."
-unknown
"Some people come into
our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on
our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."