"When 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."

E. W. Howe



"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



"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Albert Schweitzer



"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

Ed Cunningham



"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Louisa May Alcott



"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead."

Anna Cummins



"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

Ralph Waldo Emerson



"The only way to have friends is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

Unknown



"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

Abraham Lincoln



"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Fr. Jerome Cummings



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

Marlene Dietrich



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

Katherine Hathaway



"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Dumas The Younger



"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

Len Wein



"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Marcel Proust



"True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together."

Ralph Waldo Emerson



"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Dale Carnegie



"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends."

Walt Whitman



"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."

Unknown



"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how."

Unknown



"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

Ralph Waldo Emerson



"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Charlotte Bronte



"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

David Tyson Gentry



"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."

Unknown



"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how."

Unknown



"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."

Woodrow Wilson

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Before you talk about what you want - Really appreciate what you have before it's gone."
Ethan Daniel


"Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars."
Violeta Parra


"To be able to find joy in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness."
George Bernanos


"Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others."
Harriet Shepard


"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
Roy Goodman


"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Joseph Addison


"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way."
Unknown


"If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."
Marie Osmond


"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Hugh Downs


"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln


"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain


"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."
Unknown

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon


"Happiness is a function of accepting what is."
Werner Erhard


"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Herman Cain


"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."
Unknown


"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
John Lennon


"The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet."
James Oppenheim


"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli


"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
Unknown


"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost."
Jackson Browne