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Beach Quotes

“Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.” — Michelle Held

“A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.” —Farmer’s Almanac

“I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.” —Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” —Isak Dinesen

“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just ‘gets’ me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.” —Stephen Wright

beach quotes“I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.” —Anonymous

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” — T. S. Eliot

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” —Robert Henri

“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.” —Thoreau

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” —Anonymous

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” —Jacques Cousteau

“I dropped a tear in the ocean, and whenever they find it I’ll stop loving you, only then.” —Anonymous

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” —Mother Teresa

Christian Friendship Quotes

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. ~Proverbs 17:9

To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet. ~Proverbs 29:5

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. ~Proverbs 27:9

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy. ~Proverbs 27:5-6

Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. ~Proverbs 22:24–25

There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. ~Proverbs 18:24

A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. ~Proverbs 17:17

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. ~Proverbs 16:28

Christian friendship quotesTwo are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9

“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” ~ Proverbs 27:19

“The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.” ~ John 15:13

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ~Matthew 5:43-46

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. ~John 15:13–15

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General, Positive Friendship Quotes

– “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton

– “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.” – Anais Nin

– “My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson

– “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein

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

– “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubard

– “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – John Lennon

– “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” – Mary Catherwood

– “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

– “I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

– “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy…” – Guido

– “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” –Benjamin Disraeli

– “I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.” – Cher

– “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe