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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

True friendship is never serene.

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times, however, avoid friends who sympathize too deeply, who give us pity rather than strength.

- D. Lupton

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

- Charles Caleb Colton

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

- Susan Ferrier

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

- Soren Kierkegaard

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

- Richard Graves

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

- Greek proverb

A friend is never known till a man has need.

- Anonymous

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

- Ovid

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

- John Dryden

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.

- Malik Muhammad Jayasi

A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.

- Eliza Cook

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

- Honore de Balzac

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

- Publilius Syrus

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

- Lisa Alther

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

- Mariama Ba

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

- Edna Buchanan

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

- Mark Twain

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

- Katherine Butler Hathaway

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

- Sheryl Condie

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

- George Eliot

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

- Plutarch