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“I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.”

“When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.”

Want Looks Friendship My Friends Defined

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.”

People Ifs Way Want Energy Friendship Unselfishness Thoughtfulness

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“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

“Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.”

Ifs Want Life Inspiration Friendship Secret Friends Appreciate Appreciation Employee Engagement Thank You Appreciated Employee Engagement Rewards And Recognition Employee Recognition Great Employee

Book:Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur

Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur

“Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.”

Want Interest Friendship Regard Esteem Vanity Mutual Amusement

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.”

Men Want Needs Turns Friendship Loses Pleasure Drink Wine Glad Grieving Rejoice Decline Woe Nectar

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.”

Want Friendship Environment Violent Organisms Shields

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.”

Want Friendship Wounds

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.”

Want Love Friendship Hurt Our Lives Love Life Allowing My Friendship

Author:Chris Brown

“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”

Want Friendship Known Break Promise Intimacy Breakup Engagement Breach Punctuality Dine Punctual

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”

Want Long Friendship Missing Friends My Friends Hippo Miss Me

Author:Saint Augustine

“Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.”

Want Heart Friendship Mind Your Own Business Cannibal

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.”

Thinking Want I Can Friendship Inspire Husband My Husband Hanging Out My Best Friend Do The Best Glare Best Husband

Author:Faith Hill

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

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Author:Richard Bach

“When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.”

People Want Giving Girl Friendship Give Me Crush Call Me Compliment Girl Crush

Author:Mindy Kaling

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

Knows Men Want Book Motivational Reading Friendship Sarcastic Reading Books My Best Friend Book Reading Books And Reading Friendship Day Libraries Books And Reading Books For Kids Book Club Libraries And Reading Great Reading

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.”

Want Book Faith Friendship Faithful Companion Cheerful Comforter Faithful Friends Counsellors

Book:The Theological Works

Source: The Theological Works

“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.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”

Want Hard Wisdom Literature Friendship Family Riches

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

Ifs Want Life Peace Friendship Enemy Friends Making Peace Peace And Justice Peacemaking Peace Justice Cultural Differences Achieving Peace Friends And Enemies Friend Enemy Global Peace

Author:Desmond Tutu

“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”

Want Art Joy Friendship Ought Faults Great Friend

Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

People Want Life Inspirational Funny Friendship Love Is Money Break Positive Friends Heartbreak Humorous My Friends Dating Actresses What You Want Producers Broken Heart Bus Host Riding Romantic Love Real Friends Breaking Down My Best Friend True Friend True Friendship My Friendship Friends Forever Best Love Funny Life Your Best Friend People In Your Life About Friendship Famous Women Friendship Memories Lots Of Friends Best Friendship Cute Friendship Funny Friend Fake Friends Inspirational Friendship Great Friendship Female Friendship Funny Friendship Lasting Friendship Happy Friendship True Friend Is Real Friendship True Best Friend Beautiful Friendship Bff Hearts And Friends Friendship And Life Who Your Real Friends Are Being A Good Friend Loyal Friend Limos Wonderful Friendship Sweet Friendship Funny Best Friend Who Your Friends Are Cute Best Friend Special Friend True Friendship And Life Meaningful Friendship Sweet Friend Friendship Forever Funniest Friends Amazing Friendship Celebrating With Friends Qualities Of A Friend Thank You Friendship Being A True Friend Touching Best Friend Your My Best Friend Bff Forever Moments With Friends

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

Want Religion Heaven Friendship My Friends Novelists Real Friends Playwright Best Friend Friends Forever Close Friends Essayists True Best Friend Loyal Friend Lifelong Friends

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.”

Thinking Want Friendship Love You Faults Spite

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”

Want Friendship Known Harry Potter Weasley Ron Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”

Ifs Want Stuff Friendship Alive Mets Glad Staying Alive Catchers Holden Caulfield

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.”

“If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Friendship Acceptance Real Friends Accounting

Author:Mary Browne

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.”

“Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.”

Want Inspirational Action Young Friendship Failing Errors Deeds Noble Aids Prime Elderly Supplements Noble Deeds Prime Of Life

Author:Aristotle

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”

Ifs Knows Want Friendship Interesting Friends Sentences Jail Who Your Friends Are

Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

Knows Want Giving States Pain Remember Happiness Hope Names Felt Friendship Patience Fascinating Being Happy Parting Pain Is Temporary

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey”

Want Kind Long Sometimes Hard Friendship Steps Path Groups Journey All Kinds No Friends Hard Journey Wrong Friends

Book:The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers

Source: The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers

“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”

Want Believe Asks Friendship Opinion Honest Honesty Emotional Friends Don't Believe Being Honest

Author:Albert Camus

“...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.”

Ifs Want Firsts Persons Care Friendship Caring

Book:Blood Of The Fold

Source: Blood Of The Fold

“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Made Feelings Motivational Remember Winning Names Friendship Memories Pay Self Help Importance Add Impression Subtle Compliment Compliments You

Author:Dale Carnegie

“Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.”

Want Motivational Life Is Friendship Chiefs Great Friend

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.”

Way Want Stills Friendship Aging What You Want Real Friends Getting Older Old Friends Old Friendship

Author:Robert Breault

“I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.”

Ifs Want Friendship Dog Friends

Author:Alan Sugar

“Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.”

Want Love Friendship Love You Who You Are Close Friends Sweet Love Friend Love

Book:Revenge of the latchkey kids: an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond

Source: Revenge of the latchkey kids: an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond

“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.”

Want Can Do Friendship Friends Shadow Smile Pool I Smile

Author:Confucius

“I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.”

People Want Kind Two Friendship Type Proof

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.”

Ifs Want Friendship Business Dog Investing

Author:Carl Icahn

“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.”

Ifs Want Love Should Friendship Inexplicable

Author:Max Jacob

“I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.”

Want Helping Friendship Laughing Doubt Please Laughter Graves Discrimination Admire No Doubt Remarks Please Me Penetration

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Letters, Songs, His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: with an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character [signed: J. B.]. MS. Notes

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Letters, Songs, His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: with an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character [signed: J. B.]. MS. Notes

“I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that”