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Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Power Of Laughter And Humor

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 language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Benefits Of Social Support

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Comfort Of Having Someone To Confide In

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Value Of Shared Experiences

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

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Swedish Proverb

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Role Of Friendship In Personal Growth

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 And Friends Quotes About The Happiness That Comes From Giving To Others

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown

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

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.
Randy Alcorn

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Beauty Of Diversity In Friendships

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Strength Of Long-Lasting Friendships

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Importance Of Forgiveness In Friendships

Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.
Anonymous

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 path to friendship.
Unknown

Forgiveness is the glue that binds friendships together.
Unknown

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Role Of Communication In Maintaining Friendships

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

Communication is key to any relationship. If you can't communicate with someone, it's hard to keep a relationship going.
Gina Carano

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Importance Of Friendship

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

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Joy Of Spending Time With Loved Ones

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 most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Happiness That Comes From Making New Friends

Friendship is the purest love.
Osho

The only thing better than making a new friend is keeping an old one.
Elmer G. Letterman

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Role Of Gratitude In Appreciating Friendships

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Happiness And Friends Quotes About The Happiness That Comes From Being A Good Friend

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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