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Farewell My Friend
by Gitanjali Ghei

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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.
- Albert Camus

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie