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Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
A true friend is someone who will listen to you, laugh with you, and do the right thing for you even if you don't agree with it.
we learn the most about ourself when we learn about others.
Being lonely is more friendly with two.
Is there some meaning to this life?
What purpose lies behind the strife?
Whence do we come, where are we bound?
These cold questions echo and resound
through each day, each lonely night.
We long to find the splendid light
that will cast a revelatory beam
upon the meaning of the human dream.
Courage, love, friendship,
compassion, and empathy
lift us above the simple beasts
and define humanity.
My life is -- as if each person I know was born with a beautiful book with golden edges on each page -- and each of us can read the language of our own book -- containing our own unique values, ideas, insights and direction, yet we cannot read the language of anyone else's book, and they cannot read our book. And, then, you and I started talking and I discovered that while the words in your book are different from mine, the language of your book is exactly the same as mine -- and words flow and flow between us without effort. Then, I looked closer in my book and I saw beautiful, happy pictures of you and your family...and I smiled.
"Choose your friends wisely! Not everything that glitters is golden, not everything that's golden glitters!"
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own
When you can't run you crawl, and when you can't crawl you find someone to carry you..
" Having one good friend is worth more than being popular amongst many ."
In one minute with a good friend, you have someone you can lean on -- in one minute with a great friend, all leaning becomes unnecessary.
"The joy of friendship can calm the storm within the soul and leave a rainbow to show the promise of healing and hope. "
The only people you need in your life are those who need you in theirs.
"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you're not."
Ones inescapable desire to accept another's differences as...
Distinction
The fearless comfort in all that I do not know as...
Trust
The admiration of one's life journey as...
Respect
You excite me to transparency through...
The beauty of truth
You humble me to wisdom through...
The fortitude of understanding
Loving who you are in this moment through...
The exoneration of your past
This is no coincidence...
This familiarity defines true friendship...timeless...a decade later.
-- Kandra J Gardner
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."
Our present is being defined by every action that we do.
If you call me up drunk at four in the morning, no matter the time zones or state lines away, I'll be on buslines or burning up phone cards, just like I lived eight blocks away.
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
"There were two men standing across from each other, each in desperate need of a helping hand. They reached out to each other, but their fingers barely touched. The man on the right wondered why the other man wouldn't reach just one inch more. Finally, frustrated, he reached forward and clasped the other man's hand. When the other man tried to hug him, he stepped back.
"Why didn't you reach just one more inch?" he demanded.
The other man was astonished.
"One more inch?" he asked. "To me it seemed like you were miles away."
If life is a path, we are barefoot and we each scatter before us the contents of two bags hanging from our shoulders. From the first bag -- sharp nails of worry, fear, regret and doubt, or from the second bag -- rose petals of hope, joy, friendship and confidence. If life is a path...we are the masters of that path.
Never make someone a priority who only considers you an option.
true friendship means knowing your needed even without being told
People who do not consider this little word, FRIENDSHIP,
is by all means described as a bastard.
(Of his nemesis, the late former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover)
It's better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.
Keep your friends close...and your enemies closer.
Butter up your boss, not your roll.
All is forgiven, move on.
