friendship
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘friendship’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.” -James Joyce
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“It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.” -Gilbert Parker
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“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.” -Thomas Fuller
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“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.” -Jane Austen
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“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.” -Henry Adams
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“The friendship that can cease has never been real.” -St. Jerome
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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.” -Joseph Addison
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“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.” -Francis Bacon
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“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!” -Marie de France
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“No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.” -Madeleine Albright
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“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.” -Mason Cooley
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“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.” -Simone Weil
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“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” -Charles Lamb
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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” -Epicurus
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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it.…
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“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.” -Charles Dickens
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“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.” -Lisa See
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“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” -Samuel Butler
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“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.” -William Glasser
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“The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.” -Michelle Obama
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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” -Robert Southey
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” -Anais Nin
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“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.” -Tim Allen
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“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” -David Storey
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“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.” -Voltaire
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.” -Truman Capote
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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” -Albert Camus
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“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” -George Washington
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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.” -John Wooden
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“All lasting business is built on friendship.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Saint Basil
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“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.” -Richard Burton
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“I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” -Khalil Gibran
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“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” -Orson Welles
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“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” -Ann Landers
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“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Love is a friendship set to music.” -Joseph Campbell
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“The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers.” -Larry Flynt
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“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.” -Euripides
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“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” -Francesco Guicciardini
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“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.” -Joseph Brodsky
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“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
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“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.” -George Jean Nathan
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“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” -Emil Ludwig
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“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.” -Herman Melville
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“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.” -Taylor Swift
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“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” -Honore de Balzac
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“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” -Samuel Pepys
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“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.” -Francis Quarles
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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” -Bruce Lee
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” -Octavia Butler
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“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” -George MacDonald
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“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” -Charles Darwin
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“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.” -Charles Alexander Eastman
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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” -Walt Whitman
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“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.” -Virginia Woolf
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“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” -King Solomon
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“Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
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“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“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
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“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” -Confucius
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“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” -Chanakya
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“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.” -Walter Winchell
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“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” -Giotto di Bondone
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“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” -Toni Morrison
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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” -Doug Larson
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” -Joseph Roux
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“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.” -Judy Holliday
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker
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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” -Katherine Mansfield
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“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” -John Leonard
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“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“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 Duer Miller
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“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” -Henry Ford
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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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
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“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” -Margaret Lee Runbeck
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“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” -Helen Keller
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“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” -Len Wein
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“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” -Socrates
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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” -Henri Nouwen
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“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” -Jim Morrison
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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” -William Penn
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” -Margaret Walker
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“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” -Abraham Lincoln
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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.” -Charles Kingsley
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“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.” -Plutarch
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“A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.” -Bil Keane
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“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” -Buddha
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“Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” -Muhammad Ali
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“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“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
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“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.” -Pam Brown
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“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” -Robert Brault
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust
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“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” -William Butler Yeats
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