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Friends Quotes - Page 13

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6074, e-artnow

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

I've never been the type of guy that had a lot of friends or was part of the cool group.

"Jim Jeffries and Peter O’Fallon Talk Going Legit!". Interview with a group of journalists and bloggers, eclipsemagazine.com. January 30, 2013.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

"Auld Lang Syne" l. 1 (1796). JamesWatson, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems (1711), contains a ballad beginning: "Should old acquaintance be forgot, / And never thought upon, / The flames of love extinguished, / And freely past and gone? / Is thy kind heart now grown so cold / In that loving breast of thine, / That thou canst never once reflect / On old-long-syne?"

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

"Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau" by A. R. Orage, The Century Magazine, November 1924.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.