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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
by Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle

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

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

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

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

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

Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

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

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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