Repost : Friendship Quotes

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. (Thomas Hughes)

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. (D.T. Gentry)

Friendship takes many years to establish; so do not fall out with a friend over a single disagreement. (Sadi, “Gulistan”)

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. (Oscar Wilde)

Do not reveal to friends all the secrets you possess; they may one day become enemies. Do not inflict on enemies every injury in your power; they may one day become friends. (Sadi, “Gulistan”)

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. (Joseph Conrad)

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. (Blaise Pascal)

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you. ( Dale Carnegie)

True friends are like jewels, precious and rare. False ones are like autumn leaves, found everywhere. (Unknown)

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

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. (Joan Churton Collins)

Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes. (Irish saying)

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.(Elizabeth Foley)

You are my friend when you can guard my failure, challenge my thought and celebrate my success. (Unknown)

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. (Henry B. Adams)

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. (Len Wein)

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. (Jim Morrison)

A friend is the person who knows all about you and still loves you. (Elbert Hubbert)

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. (Mark Twain)

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)

It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. (Benjamin Franklin)

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. (Solon)

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you… then you would realize what a truly special person you are. (Barbara A. Billings)

“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. (Louisa May Alcott)

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend. (Ann Kaiser Stearns)

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. (from The Pioneer Girls Leaders’ Handbook)

10 Rules for getting along with people

1. Remember their names
2. Be comfortable to be with. Don’t cause strain in others
3. Try not to let things bother you. Be easygoing
4. Don’t be egotistical or know-it-all
5. Learn to be interesting so that people will get something stimulating from being with you
6. Eliminate the “scratchy” elements in your personality, traits that can irritate others
7. Never miss a chance to offer support or say “Congratulations”
8. Work at liking people. Eventually you’ll like them naturally
9. Honestly try to heal any misunderstandings and drain off grievances
10. Develop spiritual depth in yourself and share this strength with others.

– Norman Vincent Peale

Do We Care Who?

When they came for the Jews, I did nothing, for I am not a Jew. When they came for the Socialists, I did nothing, for I am not a Socialist. When they came for the labor leaders, the homosexuals, the gypsies, I did nothing, for I am none of these, and when they came for me, I was alone, there was no one to stand up for me. – Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor from Nazi Germany

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Whatever misfortunes the unlucky ones are facing, do we have to know who they are? what they believe in, what colour is their skin?  Isn’t the same red blood is running in them? Aren’t they God’s creation? So make your stand and lend a helping hand in whatever way possible.

Random Quotes #02

Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Goethe

Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing – it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up. – Bernard Cooke

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford,

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.  – Kahlil Gibran

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined – Henry James

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.  – Conrad Hilton

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. – Thomas Hughes

Treating others with respect can make getting things done easier and more pleasant for everyone. – Unknown

Quotes and Sayings on Living #2

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. (Anne Frank)

Try living one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day, until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital, and alive. (Unknown)

There are people we wonder about but don’t make attempts to contact. Perhaps we’re afraid of empty conversations with someone or perhaps we’re curious about someone whose life we watched for awhile from afar. Sometimes it’s just been too long and sometimes we can’t even articulate the need to know whatever happened to them. Where are they? Did they make it? Are they happy? Are they passionate about something in their lives? Are they anything like the people we once knew? (Audrey Beth Stein)

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Time to do some serious thinking and make a move?

Of kindness and companionship

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
(Saint Basil)

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
(Audrey Hepburn)

Friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler)

Silence of friends

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
(Martin Luther King Jr.)

How does it feel?

Feels good when somebody miss you. Feels better when somebody loves  you. But it feels best when somebody never forgets you. (Unknown)

Forgiveness & Good Deeds

A story tells that two friends were walking through

the desert. During some point of the journey, they

had an argument, and one friend slapped the other

one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt,

but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand:

Today my best friend slapped me in the face.

They kept on walking, until they found an oasis,

where they decided to take a bath. The one who had

been slapped got stuck in the mire and started

drowning, but his friend saved him. After he

recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:

Today my best friend saved my life.

The friend, who had slapped and saved his best

friend, asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in

the sand, and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The other friend replied: “When someone hurts us,

we should write it down in sand, where the winds of

forgiveness can erase it away, but when someone

does something good for us, we must engrave it in

stone where no wind can ever erase it.

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve

your blessings in stone.