Can you give me quotes about love, life and friendship?

Question

Can you give me quotes about love, life and friendship?

Answer 1

My favorite: "Friends are Gods way to make up for family."

Answer 2

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden."

-Goethe

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

-Confucious

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

-unknown

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend."

-unknown

"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship."

-Spanish Proverb

"Friends are born, not made."

-Henry Adams

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

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

-Lee Iacocca

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."

-Nigerian Proverb

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

-Albert Schweitzer

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."

-Rusty Berkus

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

-Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Remember friends as you pass by,

As you are now so once was I.

As low as I you once must be,

Prepare yourself and follow me."

-Gravestone from the 1800s

"I do not want a friend

Who smiles when I smile

Who weeps when I weep

For my shadow in the pool

Can do better than that."

-Confucious

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

-unknown

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer 3

Here are several of each

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Unknown Source

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism.



Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, »



s*x alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen (1935-?) American director, actor and comedian.



The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Unknown Source

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.



There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

George Sand (1804-1876) French Romantic writer.



Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) British actor, writer and director.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist.

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher and author.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine (354-430) Theologian.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Unknown Source

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and writer.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and writer.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Unknown Source

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Unknown Source

Answer 4

"I want to you to be happy."

"I am happy."

"I want to see you married with children."

"I thought you wanted me to be happy."

I can't remember where that's from.

"Money can't buy you friends but it can buy you a whole new class of enemies."

Spike Milligan

"I love acting, it's so much more real than life."

"A man can be happy with a woman as long as he does not love her."

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

All three are Oscar Wilde.

Answer 5

Here are some of my favorites:

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” - A. A. Milne

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” - Tennessee Williams

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” - Morrie Schwartz

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” - Buddha

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