"You know you've got the greatest friends when the only time they make you cry is when you're laughing too hard." Unknown

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away." Bil Keane

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." John Churton

"Make friends before you need them." Unknown

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others." Charles Dickens

"Few burdens are heavy when everybody lifts."Anonymous

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." Mencius

"People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits." Wayne Dyer

"Children Learn What They Live. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with impropriety, he learns to feel shame. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate. He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world. With what is your child living?" Dorothy Law Neite

"Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction." Sydney Harris

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." Baltasar Gracian

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." African proverb

"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." William James

"When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand." Alex Haley

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." J.K. Rowling

"You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." Unknown

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles

"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences,
not simply in the enjoyment of similarities." James Fredericks

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

"Without the warming & mellowing that good friendship brings into life, we invariably lose gratitude and joy." Ronald Rolheiser

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." Moshe Dayan, military leader and politician (1915-1981)

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." Stephen King

"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."Gail Godwin

"Friends share all things." Plato

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.” William James

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.” Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” Alice Walker

“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” Carl Sandburg

“If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.” Unknown

“Choose A Friend By His Fruit, Not His Suit.” anonymous

“Love is friendship set afire.” Jeremy Taylor

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

“You cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening your own.” Rumi

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” Ed Cunningham

“A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.” Alexander Penney

“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.” Mary McCarthy

“When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections.” Miles Franklin

“The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.” anonymous

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?” George Eliot

“No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.” Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

"One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention." Jim Rohn

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.” Clive Staples Lewis, novelist and essayist (1898-1963)