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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation.
St. Francis de Sales
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
George Bernard Shaw
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
Unknown
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way.
Unknown
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest...It's about who came, and never left your side.
Unknown
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The happiest people are not those who receive more, but those who give more.
Unknown
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
Frank Butler
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the key to unlocking the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate.
Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the only way to heal a broken friendship.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the glue that binds friendships together.
Unknown
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.
Nat Turner
Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.
Brian Tracy
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph Nichols
Communication is not just about speaking. It's also about listening and understanding.
Asa Don Brown
Communication is the lifeline of any relationship. Without it, the relationship will starve itself to death.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is only real when shared.
Jon Krakauer
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
Friendship is the purest love.
Osho
The only thing better than making a new friend is keeping an old one.
Elmer G. Letterman
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
The only thing better than having a good time is having a good time with friends.
Unknown
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