Remember, we all stumble

Remember, we all stumble
1. Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. -Swedish proverb
2. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough
3. Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. No road is long with good company. -Turkish Proverb
5. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with. -Wayne Dyer
6. To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. -Domenico Cieri Estrada
7. Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore
8. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich
9. A true friend is one who thinks you are good egg even if you are half-cracked. -Anonymous
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10. Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. -Anonymous
11. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when memory fails. -Donna Roberts
12. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. -Grace Pulpit
13. It takes a long time to grow an old friend. -John Leonard
14. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -Anais Nin
15. Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. -Sare and Cate
16. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. -Plautus
17. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. -Barbara Kingsolver
18. In my friend, I find a second self. -Isabel Norton
19. Let us be grateful to people who makes us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust

Remember, we all stumble

The friend who holds your hand

The friend who holds your hand
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Author Unknown


The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  ~Barbara Kingsolver


Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.  ~E.W. Howe


There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.  ~Edith Wharton


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  ~Benjamin Franklin


The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.  ~Author Unknown


The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.  They cherish each other's hopes.  They are kind to each other's dreams.  ~Henry David Thoreau


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.  ~Alice Duer Miller


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.  ~Anäis Nin


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  ~Eustache Deschamps


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ~Emil Ludwig


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


Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843


Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.  ~Samuel Pepys


A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Hold a true friend with both your hands.  ~Nigerian Proverb


Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.  ~Sarah Orne Jewett


I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal


If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets


Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.  ~Francesco Guicciardini


The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.  ~Gwyneth Paltrow


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Mencius


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.  ~Dag Hammarskjold


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


I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~Thomas A. Edison


Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack.  Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ~Plutarch


The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.  ~David Storey


Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends.  Bury the carcass of friendship:  it is not worth embalming.  ~William Hazlitt


It's no good trying to keep up old friendships.  It's painful for both sides.  The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.  ~Somerset Maugham


Friends are like walls.  Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there.  ~Author Unknown


In my friend, I find a second self.  ~Isabel Norton

The friend who holds your hand

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-- Walter Winchell

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson


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

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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous

Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino (1537)


"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels


Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.  ~Aristotle


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.  ~Arnold H. Glasgow


The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927


A good friend is cheaper than therapy.  ~Author Unknown


If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow


But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~William Blake


A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.  ~Pam Brown


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts


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


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


You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  ~Laurence J. Peter


Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  ~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit


One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.  ~D.H. Lawrence


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


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.  ~Dorothy Parker


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~Virginia Woolf


There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown


I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Author Unknown


It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich


She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved