Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.--William Mather 

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.--Pam Brown 

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb 

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.--George Washington 

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis 

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

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn 

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson 

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis 

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman 

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller 

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison 

The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.--Sarah Orne Jewett 

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.--James Howell ("French" Paroimiographia) 

Hold a true friend with both hands.--Nigerian proverb

A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.--Christi Mary Warner 

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!--Doug Larson 

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.--Heather Pryor 

True friends...face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.--C. S. Lewis 

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.--Dave Tyson Gentry 

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon) 

Two shorten the road.--Irish proverb 

Value the friends you have while they're around, you never know when they'll be gone.--Darin Gosling 

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.-- Barbara Colorose 

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.--Lettie Cottin Pogrebin 

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.--Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin 

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!--Colette 

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.--Aristotle

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.--Albert Camus

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.--Ann Landers 

Some people strengthen others just by being the kind of people they are.--John M. Gardener 

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.--Napoleon Hill 

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.--Mahatma Gandhi 

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.--Arnold Schwarzenegger 

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces--Judith Viorst 

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.--Amos Bronson Alcott 

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get."--Elbert Hubbard (The Notebook) 

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.--Jimmy Carter 

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.--Booker T. Washington 

There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.--Beverly Sills 

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.--Aaron Hill 

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.--George Macdonald (The Marquis of Lossie) 

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.--Rachel Carlson

You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett