Fate makes us family; choice makes us friends.

Quotes about Friends

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Fate makes us family; choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anaïs Nin
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who understands my past, believes in my future, and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A lifelong friend is someone you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous

A brother is a friend given by Nature.

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quotes about Family

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare 

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Quotes about Forgiveness

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins 

I love you for that part of me you bring out.

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Amazing Quotes about Love

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. .
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a song - sing it.

Amazing Quotes about Life Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. - Sai Baba Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. - Helen Keller Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. - Anonymous Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie

Old age is fifteen years older than I am

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James