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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. Shunryu Suzuki

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving  

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. Alice Miller

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Thomas Aquinas

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Francis Quarles

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy

Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo  

I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. Ricky Williams

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. John C. Maxwell