Love And Friendship Quotes - Page 4

• I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

  Edward John Trelawny

  Yield, Tree, Fruit

  Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.506

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• Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Flower, Pride, Gold

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• With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, Effort, Church

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• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

  Pete Hamill

  Lonely, Promise, Rewards

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it's not owing like a debt to one person--it's really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instant--so each person that keeps that from happening, no matter how small a role they play, is also responsible for all of it. Just by giving friendship and love, you keep the people around you from giving up--and each expression of friendship or love may be the one that makes all the difference.

  Will Schwalbe

  Giving Up, Love You, Expression

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.180, Vintage

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• In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Gold, Notes

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Spirit of Christmas”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, And Love, Impossible

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Friendship, Sake, Foundation

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

  Larry Flynt

  Love, True Friend, Vocabulary

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• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Friendship, Dignity

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• For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

  Elie Wiesel

  Powerful, Brutality, World

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.192, Knopf

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• It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

  Wallace Stegner

  Good Life, Ambition, Support

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.16, Modern Library

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Mom, Kids, Parenting

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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