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A friend is a present you give yourself. ...
by Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

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

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

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

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie