A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered. — A. A. Milne
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind. — Jackie Robinson
Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this. — Khushwant Singh
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true — A. A. Milne
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away — Helen Steiner Rice
Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment.
Take off your clothes.
Forget yourself. Make love.
Self-destruction is the only
way to peace. — Yayoi Kusama
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Paulo Coelho
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. — Barbara Jordan
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure. — Honore de Balzac
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being. — St. Catherine of Siena
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. — Henry Van Dyke
Enduring Friendship Quotes
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs. — Terry Kay
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. — Erma Bombeck
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. — Pete Hamill
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. — Soren Kierkegaard
Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness. — Thomas S. Monson
Forever is composed of nows.
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. — Sarah Vowell
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible. — John Muir
It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. — Saadi Shirazi
To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it — David Gemmell
Love Is Eternal Quotes
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. — Mother Teresa
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love! — Mikhail Bulgakov
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it — Friedrich Nietzsche
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. — Hermann Hesse
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — Leo Tolstoy
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. — Soren Kierkegaard
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. — Petrarch
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. — Honore de Balzac
We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves. — Susan L. Taylor
We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance. — Brandon Lee
George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend. — Ray Stevens
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. — George R. R. Martin
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits. — Anatoli Boukreev
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. — Phillip Noyce
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. — Oprah Winfrey
Best friends listen to what you don't say. — Samantha Norman
To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect. — Bill Bryson
Our Love Is Eternal Quotes
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. — Rossiter W. Raymond
Most of us spend years chasing things in this world that we think will make us feel loved. But everything this world has to offer is temporary. Everything. The kind of love our souls crave is lasting, eternal. And only God can fill up our hearts with that kind of love. — Lysa TerKeurst
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. — Helen Hayes
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. — Seneca
Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator. — Eben Alexander
Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union. — Adyashanti
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. — Ignatius of Loyola
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings. — Ernest Holmes
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part. — Ben Harper
My Love Is Eternal Quotes
For those who love... time is eternity. — Henry Van Dyke
Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. — Rumi
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. — Victor Hugo
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear. — Henry Van Dyke
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour. — Ninon De L'Enclos
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. — Thomas Goodwin
We have a mind, but we are the consciousness within the body and mind. I'm in my body but I am the eternal soul full of knowledge and bliss, unborn and undying. And the natural quality of the soul, uncovered from the ego and all our misconceptions, is unconditional love for the all-beautiful Lord. — Radhanath Swami
My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. — Mother Teresa
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff. — Emily Bronte
In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us. — St. Catherine of Siena
Eternal Marriage Quotes
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. — Edith Stein
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? — John Donne
If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. — F. Burton Howard
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. — Katherine Mansfield
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. — Robert Anton Wilson
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise. — Swami Vivekananda
Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart. — L. Whitney Clayton
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. — Myrtle Fillmore
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. — Kahlil Gibran
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bonds Of Friendship Quotes
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when. — Simon Sinek
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. — Margaret Cavendish
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship. — Drake
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn
A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness. — Desmond Morris
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever. — Barack Obama
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. — Lee Grant
Deep Friendship Quotes
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light — Sarah McLachlan
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. — Lincoln Chafee
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger. — Chin-Ning Chu
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure. — Benjamin Harrison
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. — Elie Wiesel
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others. — Dalai Lama
We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do — Linda Blair
A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race. — Frank Sinatra
Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity. — Avril Lavigne
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. — Sydney Smith
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship. — Moliere
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that. — George Santayana
I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it. — Amy Grant
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends. — Robert Hugh Benson
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. — Albert Camus
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. — Neale Donald Walsch
On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations! — Svetlana Alliluyeva
I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. — Mitt Romney
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. — H. L. Mencken
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains - the bond of fellowship - the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal - the fellowship of spirit. — Manly Hall
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten. — Jude Morgan
This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared. — Milan Kundera
Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness. — Stanley Coren
You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you. — William Rose Benet
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful. — Kahlil Gibran
The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity — Catherine Marshall
Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship. — Marlin K. Jensen
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content. — Hermann Hesse
This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship. — Kirsten Miller
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