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“Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.”

People Energy Given Friendship Economy Modern Resources Blessed Dear Ancient Abundance Scarcity Time And Energy Relics Vanishing

Author:Victor Hugo

“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”

World Want Given Friendship Fate Masters Cooperation

Author:Golda Meir

“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”

Given Friendship Virtue Vices Aids Favors

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Remember Father Given Friendship Affection Smell Generous Shirts Awkward Hug Spices Tobacco Engulfing Old Spice

Book:Move On

Source: Move On

“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”

Choices Given Friendship Degrees Ruthlessness

Author:Sting

“That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.”

Given Friendship Circumstances

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

Men Love Self Given Social Interest Friendship Business Friends Self Love Involved Profit Mutual Steady Arrangements Propose Adjustment Interchange

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

Source: Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life

“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Firsts Might Would Be Given Felt Friendship Perfect Magic Effects Friends Illusion Excellent Socialist Veils Concealing Nobody's Perfect

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.”

Love Wells Pain Used Lying Given Friendship Risk Missing Positive Waste True Love Convinced Selfish Generosity Prudence Reins Waste Of Life

Author:Mary Cholmondeley

“You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me”

Ifs World Mean I Can Given Causes Friendship Love You Loving You Stop Loving You Mean The World To Me Never Stop Loving You Mean The World To Me Never Stop Loving You

Author:David LaMotte

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”

Men Love Humor Funny Given Friendship Friends Proof Supreme Devotion Spontaneous True Friend Aversion Funny Friend

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”

Inspirational Given Friendship Virtue Friends Vices Companion Assistants

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.”

Knows Children Different Law Given Parent Friendship Couple Lovers Married Criticism Bounds Contracts Resentment Partnership In-laws Children And Parents Married Couples

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.”

Men Giving Used Given Friendship Willing Tests Treats Strive Treated Former Injury Companion Lasting Associates No Friends Inquiring Former Friends

Author:Isocrates

“The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.”

Inspirational Giving Faces Spirit Values Given Friendship Intention Determine Debt Face Value

Author:Seneca the Younger