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A friend is someone you are attached to by feelings of affection

• Friend:  A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations.  Oxford Dictionary
• Friend: A person who you know well and who you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Friend: A person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.  Dictionary.com
• Friendliness,  Principles for healthy relationships,  Love,  Listening,  Kindness,  Loyalty,  Intimacy

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Friends are our companions on the journey of life

• Do you want to walk the walk of life with me?  Billie Piper
• We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.  Robert Louis Stevenson
• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.  Pythagoras
• A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.  Tim Cahill
• Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow – don’t walk behind me, I may not lead, just walk beside me and be my friend.
• A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.  William A. Ward
• Just walk beside me and be my friend.  Albert Camus
• Two shorten the road.  Irish proverb
• Life is a journey

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Friendship is one of life’s most beautiful gifts

• A friend is a gift you give yourself.  Robert Louis Stevenson
• Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.  Epicurus
• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.  Shall I not call God, the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I didn’t find my friends; the good God gave them to me.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• From quiet homes and first beginnings out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.  Hilaire Belloc
• And what is as important as knowledge, asked the mind. Caring and seeing with the heart, said the soul.  Flavia Weedn
• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A friend is dearer than the light of heaven; for it would be better for us that the sun was extinguished, than that we should be without friends.  John Chrysostom
• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  Douglas Pagels
• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
• True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realise its beauty until it fades.  Evelyn Loeb
• Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.  Dag Hammarskjold
• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.  Walt Whitman
• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out to ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.  Madame de Tencin
• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.  Frances Farmer
• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.  Linda Grayson
• Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
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Friendship is a simple thing yet truly important; even sacred

• The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain, great friends, good food and a descent bottle of wine.  Blake Mycoskie
• The great lesson is that the sacred in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.   Abraham Maslow
• Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.  Niki Taylor
• There are only three things in life that matter – good friends, good chocolate and, oh dear, what was that other one?
• The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.  Sue Monk Kidd
• Life is in the little things

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Friendship is true wealth; more precious than gold

• Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.  Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
• I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends, I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.  Jimmy Buffet
• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.  La Rochefoucauld
• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
• It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.  Euripides
• Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  Plautus
• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.  Saint Thomas Aquinas
• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.  G. T. Hewitt
• The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, more love than rate percent, And those who give in friendship’s name shall reap what they have spent.
• We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our room tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that they shall not be wanting in the best property of all–friends?  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.  Ernie Banks
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The quality of your friendships is the truest token of success

• The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.  Edward Everett Hale
• Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.  William Butler Yeats
• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.  William Hazlitt
• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.  Margaret Walker
• I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.  Abraham Lincoln
• Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.  Michel de Montaigne
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Friendship makes life richer and more worthwhile …

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.  C. S. Lewis
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.  Elie Wiesel
• Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.  William James
• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.  Judith Viorst
• A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.  Lois Wyse
• Being a good friend and having a good friend can enrich your days and bring you lifelong satisfaction.  Sue Browder
• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.  Thomas Jefferson
• Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.  William Mather
• Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.  Vimala Thakar
• I ask of life only that which makes it worth living: the love of friends.  Justin Regier
• Life is fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.  Sydney Smith
• My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways, they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.  Helen Keller
• Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.  Mark Twain
• In the rhythm of life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, but as long as there are friends and family to provide the melody, the music plays on.  Azgraybebly Josland

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… and without friendship, life would be tedious and meaningless

• Life is nothing without friendship.  Cicero
• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.  Aristotle
• You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you – without these friendships life, what cauchemar!  T. S. Eliot
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.  Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Friendship holds the world together

• Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.  John Evelyn
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.  Woodrow Wilson
• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.  Henry David Thoreau

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Friends bring happiness and joy to life …

• 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
• 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
• Friends are the sunshine of life. John Hay
• Of all the things which provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.  Epicurus
• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.  Pythagoras
• Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.  Sydney Smith
• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.   Khalil Gibran
• If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.  P.C. Cast
• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.  Eustace Budgell
• Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.  Amanda Bradley
• No people are happier on this earth than those who have friends with whom they can talk, with whom they can live, with whom they can have a friendly chat.  Hitopadesa
• One true friend adds more to our happiness than a thousand enemies add to our unhappiness.  Marie Dubsky
• Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.  Robert E. Frederick
• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.  Thomas Fuller
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… doubling our joys and halving our sorrows

• A sorrow shared is half a trouble, but joy that’s shared is joy made double.  English proverb
• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.  Cicero
• To get the full value from joy you must have somebody to divide it with.  Mark Twain
• Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.  Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.  Baltasar Gracián
• Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.  Swedish proverb
• Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.  Thomas Fuller
• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.  Katherine Mansfield
• Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.  Cicero

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Friendship provides great comfort …

• Friendship is a sheltering tree.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.  Terri Guillemets
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  William Blake
• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  Virginia Woolf
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… especially in difficult times

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.  Henri J.M. Nouwen
• If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.  P.C. Cast
• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.  Helen Keller
• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.  Helen Keller
• At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.  Woodrow Wilson
• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.  Aristotle
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Friends are vital for our health, healing and well being

• A faithful friend is the medicine of life.  Ecclesiasticus 6:16
• No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend, to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.  Aelred of Rievaulx
• Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to? If your answer is yes, you will likely live longer than someone whose answer is no.  Martin Seligman
• Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.  Robert Brault
• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.  Pearl S. Buck
• A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
• Friends are necessary to a happy life.  When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it’s as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.  Harry Emerson Fosdick
• The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.  Gwyneth Paltrow
• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.  Hubert Humphrey
• A friend is what the heart needs all the time.  Henry Van Dyke
• One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.  William E. Holler
• Health,  Healing,  Well-being

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Friends are mirrors, reflecting the best in us

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  Edith Wharton
• The best mirror is an old friend.  Peter Nivio Zarlenga
• The minds of men are mirrors of one another.  David Hume
• Friends are the mirror reflecting the truth of who we are.
• A friend is a mirror who allows you to see yourself in your best light.  Anthony Lambert
• Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.  Jennie Jerome Churchill
• A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
• Friendship is so much more than a word, a handshake, and a smile.  It’s the ability to see the inner beauty in someone.  Vonda K. Van Dyke
• Good friends mirror our best back to us.  Sue Patton Thoele
• If you have a good friend, you don’t need a mirror.  Bente Borsum
• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. George Bernard Shaw
• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.  Jennie Jerome Churchill
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.  Benjamin Disraeli
• Life is a mirror

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More rewards of friendship

• 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 an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.  Aristotle
• There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.  Baltasar Gracian
• Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.  Czech proverb

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True friendship is many things

• Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.

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A true friend is family you choose

• Friends are the family you choose.  Jess C. Scott
• True friends are families which you can select.  Audrey Hepburn
• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.  Jim Butcher
• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.  Jacques Delille
• Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  Eustache Deschamps
• It is our families that shape us from the very beginning, but it is our friends that truly define us down the road. They are the ones we get to invite into our lives.  Courtney E. Martin
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.  Euripides
• Friends are God’s apology for relations.  Hugh Kingsmill
• God gave us our relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.  Ethel Mumford
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A true friend loves and accepts you as you are, not matter what …

• A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.  Elbert Hubbard
• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.  Bernard Meltzer
• A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.   Christi Mary Warner
• A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
• Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.  Albert Camus
• Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  Elbert Hubbard
• True friends are those who, when you make a fool of yourself, don’t believe that this condition is permanent.  Erwin T. Randall
• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.  Gail Godwin
• The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.  David Storey
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… not expecting you to be perfect

• One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  George Santayana
• Those who seek friends without faults stay forever without friends.
• We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.  Mignon McLaughlin
• You can always tell a real friend:  when you’ve made a fool of yourself he or she doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.  Laurence J. Peter
• Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  Elbert Hubbard
• Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.  Doris Lessing
• Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.  Goethe
• To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend’s forehead.
• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.  Jean De La Bruyere
• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!  Doug Larson
• A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
• Make allowances for your friends’ imperfections as readily as you do for your own.  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• To be a friend we should close our eyes to the faults of others and open them to our own.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson
• Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.  E.W. Howe
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A true friend lets you be totally yourself; completely real …

• A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself– and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.  Jim Morrison
• What is a friend? I will tell you. It is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.  Frank Crane
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself–and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to–letting a person be what he really is.   Jim Morrison
• What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.  Robert Brault
• Without wearing any mask, we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.  Pam Brown
• To be a friend we should be ourselves; we should be done with hypocrisy, artificiality and pretence, we should meet and mingle with people in quiet simplicity and humility.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson
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… allowing you to feel safe and comfortable with each other

• Oh, the comfort–the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person–having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.  Friedrich Nietzsche

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A true friend is someone you can be silent with

• A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.  Sheryl Condie
• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.  Dave Tyson Gentry
• Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one’s silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don’t want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.  Allen Tate
• Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.   Margaret Lee Runbeck
• The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.
• If friendship is firmly established between two hearts, they do not need to exchange news.  Sa’ib of Tabriz
• Stillness

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A true friend is someone you can confide in and open up with

• A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.  L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
• But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.   Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
• Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart.  How much we can do for each other!   Alex  Noble
• Somehow, when the going gets rough and our protective covering is stripped away, close, tender moments come about more freely, and lasting friendships are formed.  Jere Kessler Corven
• You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.  Ivan Turgenev
• Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.   Joseph Addison
• All self-revelation and intimacy in friendship must be spontaneous and natural. It must come like the opening of a flower in the sunshine and cannot be forced. Bertha Conde
• In true friendship, one can express anything and everything without feeling ashamed or afraid of being rejected.   Aparna Chatterjee
• 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
• Openness,  Vulnerability,  Intimacy

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A true friend listens

• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.  Ed Cunningham
• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.  Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger
• One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.  John O’Donohue
• Friend: A person who listens attentively while you say nothing.
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A true friend understands you even when they don’t

• It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.  Nancy Werlin
• It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset.  Erynn Miller
• As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.  Robert Brault
• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  Katherine Mansfield
• Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.  Robert Brault
• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  Henry David Thoreau
• Understanding

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A true friend is honest with you …

• An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.  Proverbs 24:26
• A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.  Russian Proverb
• A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.   Frances Ward Weller
• ’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  Benjamin Franklin
• Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.  Robert Brault
• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  Sicilian Proverb
• A true friend will tell you the truth to your face – not behind your back.  Sasha Azevedo
• Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.  Sarah Dessen
• There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.  Antisthenes
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.  Henry David Thoreau
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… but in a kind, thoughtful and tactful way

• A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn’t.  Bern Williams
• Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.  The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 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
• It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin
• Agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.  George Eliot
• Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.  Edgar Watson Howe
• Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.   Franklin P. Jones
• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.  Stephen King
• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.  David Hume
• Kindness,  Thoughtfulness,  Tact

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True friends have a deep affection for each other

• Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.  Walt Whitman
• Friendship is Love, without his wings.  Lord Byron
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.  Elie Wiesel
• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  Elbert Hubbard
• The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.  Anne Sophie Swetchine
• Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.  Chaim Potok
• In my friend, I find a second self.  Isabel Norton
• A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.
• I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.  Walt Whitman

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A true friend is someone you can laugh with, have fun with and be silly with

• Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with. Candace Bushnell
• If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.  P.C. Cast
• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good.  Arnold H. Glasgow
• Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.  Robert Brault
• We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s.  Robert Brault
• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.  Evelyn Waugh
• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.  Markus Zusak
• Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.  Emily Wing Smith
• When you’re in jail a good friend will be trying to bail you out. a best friend will be in the cell next to you saying …”Damn that was fun.”   Groucho Marx
• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.  Oscar Wilde
• Laughter,  Fun

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A true friend helps you to grow, awakening the potential in you

• I can trust my friends.  These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.  Cher
• Close friends contribute to our personal growth.  Judith Viorst
• A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.  Alice Walker
• Awakening,  Potential,  Growth

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A true friend touches your heart

• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.  Eleanor Roosevelt
• A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.  Heather Pryor
• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  Donna Roberts
• A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
• Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.
• No friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.  Francois Mauriac
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.   Flavia Weedn
• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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True friends are always there for each other …

• If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
• It’s the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter.  Marlene Dietrich
• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of a dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  Barbara Kingsolver
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.   Walter Winchell
• It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.  Robert Brault
• It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on.  Anthony Liccione
• There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.  I have no notion of loving people by halves.  Jane Austen
• 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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… ready to help and support each other at the drop of a hat

• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.  Epicurus
• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.  Emily Kimbrough
• One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.  E. H. Mayo
• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.  Epicurus
• Life is kind of like a party. You invite a lot of people, some leave early, some stay all night, some laugh with you, some laugh at you, and some show up really late. But in the end, after the fun, there are a few who stay to help you clean up the mess. And most of the time, they aren’t even the ones who made the mess. These people are your real friends in life. They are the ones who matter most.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse.  Dodinsky
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  Arnold Glasow

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A true friend believes in you and trusts you …

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.  D. H. Lawrence
• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.  Samuel Johnson
• A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it’s not your fault.  Robert Brault
• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.  Francesco Petrarch
• There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.  Alexandre Dumas
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… and will never deceive or betray you

• There’s ways you can trust an enemy you can’t always trust a friend. An enemy’s never going to betray your trust.  Daniel Abraham
• Friendship’s enemy is betrayal.  Toba Beta
• It is more shameful to distrust your friends than it is to be deceived by them.  François de La Rochefoucauld
• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.  E. M. Forster
• A true friend never breaches the trust of his companion or stabs in his back. He is trustworthy and reliable.  One should therefore always try to be a true and reliable friend.  Sam Veda
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A true friend is faithful and loyal

• Faithful friends are hard to find.  Richard Barnfield
• To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.  Napoleon I
• A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.  Aesop
• Your best friends are those who speak well of you behind your back.  Sam Ewing
• Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.  Proverb
• Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.  Hark Herald Sarmiento
• A true friend is forever a friend.  George MacDonald
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A true friend forgives easily when necessary

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  William Blake
• It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?  Willa Cather
• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.  Jean De La Bruyere
• To be a friend we should be tolerant, we should have an understanding heart and a forgiving nature, knowing that all people stumble now and then, and that those who never made a mistake never accomplished anything.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson
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A true friend will stick by you, even in the greatest adversity

• A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  Grace Pulpit
• In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.  John Churton Collins
• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.  Christian Nevell Bovee
• Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.  Torin Rush
• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.  Jim Butcher
• 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
• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.  James F. Cooper
• I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.  Katherine Mansfield
• 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
• Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.  Louisa May Alcott
• The friend of 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
• True friendship is a plant of low growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.  George Washington
• A friend is the first person who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
• When you need a friend, most is when no one is cheering.  K. C. Jones
• In times of prosperity, friends will be plenty in times of adversity not one in twenty.   English proverb
• My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.  George R.R. Martin
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A true friend is someone you can relate to and converse easily with

• A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life’s choicest blessings.  Robert Louis Stevenson
• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation.  Oscar Wilde
• Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.  Barbara Tuchman
• A healing friend is a kindred spirit who says “yeah, I know what you mean!” while pouring your cup of tea.  Kristina Turner
• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.  C. S. Lewis
• Making conversation

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A true friend is an extension of ourselves

• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.  Edith Wharton
• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  Aristotle
• In my friend, I find a second self.  Isabel Norton

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True friendship is not conquered by distance

• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.  Henry David Thoreau
• 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
• Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?  Richard Bach
• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?  Kahlil Gibran
• There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.  Diana Cortes
• Though miles may lie between us we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles it’s measured by the heart.  Richard Bach
• To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.  Chinese Proverbs
• Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.  Richard Bach

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A true friend provides reassurance and encouragement

• You always think you could have done more. That’s why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.  Robert Brault
• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.  Katharine Butler Hathaway
• Affirmation,   Encouragement

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A true friend expects nothing from you, regarding friendship as its own reward

• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from the other.  Cyril Connolly
• The function of a friend is not to have a function.  Detlef Cordes
• The most I can do for my friends is simply to be their friend.  I have no wealth to bestow upon them.  If they know that I am happy in loving them, they will want no other reward.  Is not friendship divine in this?  Henry David Thoreau
• The reward of friendship is itself. The person who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.  Alfred of Rievaulx
• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.  James F. Byrnes
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A true friend is kind with your dreams

• Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.  Henry David Thoreau
• True friends…face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.  C. S. Lewis
• To be a friend we should join hands with all people who are working for great principles, great purposes and great causes; we should put our shoulders to the wheel to help achieve common goals.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson
• Dreams

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A true friend brings out the best in you

• 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
• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.  Henry Ford

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True friendship is about quality, not quantity

• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.  Ben Jonson
• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.  Henry Brooks Adams
• My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.  Lee Iacocca
• A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.  Leo Buscaglia
• One prominent psychologist suggests that the magic number is to have three friends or companions you can really count on.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• It’s better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.  Jonathan Anthony Burkett
• As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.   Marc and Angel Chernoff
• It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on.   Anthony Liccione
• Quality

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More qualities of a true friend

• A healing friend is a kindred spirit who says “yeah, I know what you mean!” while pouring your cup of tea; sees your uniqueness; challenges you with love, humor, and honesty, to live your dreams; finds humor, song, dance, and magic hidden in your problems; delights in your surprises; accepts both ups & downs; helps you, then asks for help, too; encourages you to formulate your next steps, then goes the first step with you.   Kristina Turner
• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.  Arnold H. Glasgow
• A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.  William Penn
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.  True 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
• By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable.   Jeremy Taylor
• Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.  Dorothy Parker
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.  Kahlil Gibran
• Friends lift our spirits, keep us honest, stick with us when times are tough, and make mundane tasks enjoyable.  No wonder we want to make friends.  Em Griffin
• Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.  G. Randolf
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  Plutarch
• I have always differentiated between two types of friends: those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself, and the others for themselves.  Gerard de Nerval
• I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.  William Barclay
• The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The real test of friendship is:  Can you literally do nothing with the other person?  Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple?  They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.  Eugene Kennedy
• They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.  Henry Alonzo Myers
• True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbour of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people.  Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness.  And we do the same for them.  A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways.  In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.  Sue Patton Thoele
• True friendship reveals itself in time–not only in the sense of time spent together getting to know one another, but also in the sense that it is through the ravages as well as the easier times in life that we come to see, as they say, “who our friends are.”   Loyalty to friends is easy when nothing rotten is in the air.  But when rumours are flying, or innuendos, or betrayals–that is when the quality of true friendship becomes the stuff of heroic response. To give a friend the benefit of the doubt, to listen with depth and compassion and nonjudgment to his or her story, to remain an approving friend even when you do not agree with a particular position, to be truly loyal in an age where loyalty is so easily relinquished–these are opportunities to use friendship as a means of righteous participation in life.  Marianne Williamson
• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows.  Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labour they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends. Cicero
• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.  William Glasser

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Make friends at every opportunity …

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  Samuel Johnson
• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.  Francesco Guicciardini
• The best time to make friends is before you need them.  Ethel Barrymore

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… turning strangers into friends

• A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend.  All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.  D.C. Peattie
• Fear makes strangers of those who would be friends.  Shirley MacLain
• Strangers are friends you have yet to meet.
• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.  Rod McKuen
• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. Dame Edna Everage
• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.  Shirley Maclaine

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Choose your friends wisely

• The people you choose as friends have a big impact on how you think and act. Do not accept just anyone into your life. Choose your friends wisely.  Henri Junttila
• On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.  John Gay
• Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.  Benjamin Franklin
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Make friend by appreciating and revealing the treasure in others

• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts.  It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.  Thomas Hughes
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.  Benjamin Disraeli
• Many a friendship — long, loyal, and self-sacrificing — rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.  Frederick W. Faber
• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.  Katharine Butler Hathaway

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Make friends through a genuine interest in others

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.  Dale Carnegie

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Make friends by being kind

• We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship starts.  As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.  James Boswell
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Make friends by caring and sharing

• If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people– things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.  Lawrence G. Lovasik
• Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.  Lao Tzu
• Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.  Donna A. Favors
• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.  St. Basil

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Make friends by being a friend

• In order to have friends, you must first be one.  Elbert Hubbard
• The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  Henry David Thoreau
• If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.  Zig Ziglar
• The first step in the art of friendship is to be a friend, then making friends takes care of itself.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson

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Make friends through politeness and respect

• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.  William Feather
• Politeness and courtesy,  Respect

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Make friends by first being friends with yourself

• Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.   Stephen Richards
• Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.  Eleanor Roosevelt
• He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.  James Howell

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Building friendships is an art

• Friendships have to be created and nurtured.  Like any other skill, building friendship has to be practiced.  Sue Browder
• Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.  Marian Anderson

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Treasure and value your friendships

• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.  Charles Caleb Colton
• Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.  Joshua Loth Liebman
• Value the friends you have while they’re around, you never know when they’ll be gone.  Darin Gosling
• Hold a true friend with both hands.  Nigerian proverb
• Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.  Jewish Saying
• Hold a true friend with both hands.  Nigerian proverb
• Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life– and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.  Dean Koontz
• The only thing to do is to hug one’s friends tight and do one’s job.  Edith Wharton

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A friendship needs to be nurtured for it to grow and flourish

• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies. . . and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to “keep” by force of mere inertia.  William James
• Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.  Randolph Bourne
• It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset.  Erynn Miller
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  John Leonard
• Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them.  Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance, we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.   Alice H. Rice
• To have a true friendship, you have to do more than exchange Christmas cards or call each other once a year.  There has to be some continued support and attention; otherwise the relationship is a sentimental attachment rather than a true friendship.  Dolores Kreisman
• Friendship is a two-way street. Go more than halfway.   John Wooden
• We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.   Barbara Colorose
• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.  Wilson Mizner
• We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.   Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin
• Friendships are those fruits gathered from trees planted in the rich soil of love, and nurtured with tender care and understanding.  These trees are never subjected to drought.  Alma L. Weixelbaum
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.  Samuel Butler

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Nurture your friendships with genuine concern for their well being …

• Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position.  Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend.  The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you.  If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.  The Dalai Lama

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… and through genuine caring and love

• 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
• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.  Charlotte Bronte
• Caring,  Love

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Make time for your friends

• It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends.  Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it. Agnes Repplier (1894)
• 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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Give your friends the loving gift of your attention

• 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
• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is…our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.  Jim Rohn
• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.  Jim Rohn
• The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence.   Sue Atchley Ebaugh
• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.  Weil
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Express your affection openly

• Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead, do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.  Anna Cummins

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Open yourself up to your friends

• Self-disclosure, revealing intimate thoughts and feelings, is difficult for some individuals, but it’s critical to friendships, especially women’s friendships.  This is because honest self- disclosure, when it occurs unhurriedly and appropriately, breeds more self-disclosure and cultivates intimacy.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Openness,  Vulnerability

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Encourage and affirm your friends

• When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.   H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.  Jennie Jerome Churchill
• To be a friend we should strive to lift people up, not cast them down; to encourage, not discourage; to set an example that will be an inspiration to others.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson
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See your relationships as an opportunity to give, not take

• It is not what you give your friends, but what you are willing to give them, that determines the quality of your friendship.  Mary Dixon Thayer
• Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.  Tony Robbins
• Relationship works best when you think of it as a vehicle of giving and contributing and as a secular spiritual practice, keeping your own interests present but not predominant in your choice processes.  Paul Richards
• Friends: There are two kinds of friends – those who are around when you need them and those who are around when they need you.
• Giving,  Generosity

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Go out of your way to help and support your friends

• A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else’s problems.  It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties–your own and somebody else’s–better than you can handle your own alone.  That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.  Norman Vincent Peale
• If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.  Edgar Watson Howe
• If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.  Lawrence G. Lovasik
• It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.  Robert Brault
• So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no person is useless while he or she has friends.  Robert Louis Stevenson
• There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.  I have no notion of loving people by halves.  Jane Austen
• When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.  Edgar Watson Howe
• You must act in your friend’s interest whether it pleases your friend or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.  Woodrow Wilson
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Allow some space in your friendships

• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  Elizabeth Foley
• Let there be spaces in your togetherness.  Kahlil Gibran
• Relationships–of all kinds–are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but mostly it will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.  Kahlil Jamison
• A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.  Noah ben Shea
• I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.  Robert Brault
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More advice for nurturing close friendships

• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.  Charlotte Bronte
• 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
• Make allowances for your friends’ imperfections as readily as you do for your own.  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
• Friendship is a measure of our ability to love and be loved.  Our desire is to feel close and share our life with at least a few others. Yet some people confuse the number of people they see with friendship. People build closeness by giving friendship priority, by being honest and showing their feelings.  I like to call it being transparent.  They communicate warmth, touch, talk about their affection, give each other space, allow change, limit expectations, listen, and offer loyalty and trust. They avoid trying to control or manipulate their friends.  They don’t criticize and they don’t become dependent. It takes practice to be a good friend, and we all make mistakes.  Friendship, like love, is something you do, something you give that comes back to you.  Jennifer James

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Both old and new friends are precious

• 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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Make room for new friends …

• People’s lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes – pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can’t find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.  Helen Gurley Brown
• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.  Lettie Cottin Pogrebin
• It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.  Somerset Maugham

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… while appreciating the value of old friends

• You can go through life and make new friends every year – every month practically – but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.  Alexander McCall Smith
• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• An old friendship is like an old tree, with rings and rings of shared experiences under the outer bark, making the friendship thicker and taller.   Susan Moon
• Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.  Robert Brault
• The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.  Sarah Orne Jewett
• I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.  Oliver Goldsmith
• We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.  Caroline Norton
• I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.  Oscar Wilde

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There is nothing more priceless than friendships in old age

• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.  Jean de La Fontaine
• The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.   Mary Schmich
• It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old.  When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days, we know what it means to have them.  Edvard Grieg

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Our most important friendship is with our self

• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.  Roderick Thorp
• I believe with all my heart that the clichés are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you’re not right for yourself, it’s impossible to be right for anyone.  Rachel Machacek
• You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.  Bartholomew
• When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.  Mandy Hale
• It is time to stop telling yourself negative things that you wouldn’t dream of saying to a friend, but that you habitually say to yourself.  Amanda Harvey
• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.  Maxwell Maltz
• The point is not to change ourselves. The point is to make friends with who we already are.  Pema Chodron
• To be a friend we should start by being friends to ourselves, by being true to our highest and best and by aligning ourselves with the enduring values of human life that make for growth and progress.  Wilferd Arlan Peterson
• Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.  Stephen Richards
• Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.  Eleanor Roosevelt
• He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.  James Howell
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Friendship is love without the flame

• Love is friendship set to music.  Jackson Pollock
• 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
• Passion doth sometimes whirl the torch of Love, lest into Friendship fade the waning flame.  Richard Garnett
• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.  Austin O’Malley
• There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.  Francoise D’Aubegne Maintenon
• The only difference between friends and lovers is about four minutes.   Scott Roeben
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.  Elie Wiesel
• Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• Romantic love,  Unconditional love

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Make friends of your enemies

• I destroy my enemies by making them my friends.  Abraham Lincoln
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?  Abraham Lincoln
• It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends.  But to befriend those who regard themselves as your enemies is the quintessence of all religion.  The other is merely business.  Mohandas Gandhi
• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.  Aristotle
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.  Abraham Lincoln
• What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!   Colette
• A man’s enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.  Norman Macdonald
• A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.  Santosh Kalwar
• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.  Benjamin Franklin
• Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter – hug ’em so tight they can’t wiggle.  Lyndon B. Johnson
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.  Martin Luther King, Jr
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When friends are akin to enemies

• Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.  Jean de La Fontaine
• Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.  Jean De La Fontaine
• The enemy to be feared most is one who wears the face of a friend.  Brian Herbert & Keven J. Anderson
• There is an Italian proverb which saith, from my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me.  Elizabeth I
• I’ve always said that in politics your enemies can’t hurt you but your friends will kill you.   Ann Richards
• There’s ways you can trust an enemy you can’t always trust a friend. An enemy’s never going to betray your trust.  Daniel Abraham
• It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.   Frank Dane
• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy – for friendship’s sake.  William Blake
• Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.  Proverb
• Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.  D’Hericault
• An enemy can partly ruin a man but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.   Mark Twain
• I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends…They’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!  Warren G. Harding
• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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More thoughts on friends and enemies

• He makes no friends who never made a foe.  Alfred Lord Tennyson
• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.  William Hazlitt
• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Mario Puzo, The Godfather
• The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.  Evan Esar
• Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.  Hark Herald Sarmiento
• It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.  George Washington
• Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.  Thomas Jones
• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracian
• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Animals can make better friends than people

• Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.  George Bernard Shaw
• Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing — not unlike friends and wives.  Gerald Durrell
• Animals may be our friends; but they won’t pick you up at the airport.    Bobcat’ Goldthwait
• The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.  Robert Brault
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There is no friend like a dog …

• Dogs are, after all, man’s best friend. The least we can do is try to understand them a little better.  Nicholas Dodman
• The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
• You want a friend in Washington?  Get a dog.   Harry Truman
• Dog: The only friend you can buy for money.
• I’m a Mog half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.   John Candy
• Occasionally, a true friend gives his paw not his hand.
• My dear old dog, most constant of all friends.  William Croswell Doane
• When a man’s best friend is his dog that dog has a problem.   Edward Abbey
• These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.   Lilian Jackson Braun
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… except maybe a cat

• If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.  Theophile Gautier
• The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.   Doug Larson
• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.  Theophile Gautier
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Emotions, even negative ones, can be our friends

• Today I listen to my feelings, and I am gentle with myself. I know that all of my feelings are my friends.  Louise L. Hay
• Anxiety is your friend.  It’s your body trying to tell you something, and you ought to listen.  Dr. Richard O’Connor
• Anger is your friend.  Anger is telling you that someone is stepping on your toes, that something is going on that’s endangering something important to you.  Dr. Richard O’Connor
• Boldness be my friend.  William Shakespeare
• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.  Thomas C. Haliburton
• A disciplined conscience is a man’s best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful mentor.  Austin Phelps
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Thoughts can (sometimes) be friends

• Our best friend and our worst enemies are our thoughts.  Frank Crane

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See everything as a friend …

• Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.  Byron Katie

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… including time …

• Time is like that: cussed when we try to speed up, a dear friend when we slow down.  Richard Koch
• Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.  Jack Bogle
• Patience is being friends with Time.  Vanna Bonta
• The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.  Eckhart Tolle
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… and nature

• A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.  G.W. Curtis
• Flowers are our greatest silent friends.  Jim G. Brown
• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.  Kozuko Okakura
• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.  Carl Sandburg
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More friends we can have

• A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.  William Temple, Sr.
• Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power…it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.  Justus von Liebig
• Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan
• Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.  Benjamin Franklin
• Man’s best friend is a really good plan!  Barry Gallagher
• The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.  Isaac Singer

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Lend money to a friend and you may lose them

• Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.  Benjamin Franklin
• Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.  American Proverb
• Friendship and money: oil and water.  Mario Puzo
• A lifelong friend is one you haven’t borrowed money from yet.   Dylan Thomas
• Before borrowing from a friend decide which you need most.   Proverb
• Never forget a friend – especially if he owes you.   Fortune cookie

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If we must be honest, we don’t always delight in a friend’s success

• No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.  Groucho Marx
• In the adversity of even our best friends we always find something not wholly displeasing.   La Rochefoucauld
• Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy.  Aeschylus
• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.  Aeschylus
• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.   Oscar Wilde
• Sense of Humor: Being able to laugh at your friends’ misfortunes.
• The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!  Doug Larson

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Friendship with God

• Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.  St. Teresa of Avila
• God offers friendship, not lordship—and in return asks for friendship, not worship.  Neale Donald Walsch
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The qualities of a true friend

• A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a dead body.
• A good friend knows when to pour a glass of wine and talk it out. A great friend knows when to shut up and hand over the bottle.
• A good friend shops with you for scrap supplies. A true friend helps you hide your stash when you get home.
• A good friend will always stab you in the front.  Oscar Wilde
• An old friend will help you move; a good friend will help you move a dead body.   Jim Hayes
• Bette [Davis] and I are good friends; there’s nothing I wouldn’t say to her face – both of them.   Tallulah Bankhead
• Friend: A good friend is like a good bra, hard to find, supportive, comfortable and always close to your heart.
• Your best friends are those who speak well of you behind your back.  Sam Ewing
• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!   Doug Larson
• A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.  Farmer’s Almanac
• True friendship: Walking into a person’s house and your wifi connects automatically.
• True friends stab you in the front.  Oscar Wilde
• Best friends: Ready to die for each other, but will fight to the death over the last slice of pizza.

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• Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.  Ambrose Bierce
• Garlic diet:  you don’t actually lose weight but your friends think you look thinner at a distance.
• Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.  Ambrose Bierce
• Antipathy: The sentiment inspired by one’s friend’s friend.
• Dog: The only friend you can buy for money.
• Friend: A person who listens attentively while you say nothing.
• Friend: Someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked.
• Health:  what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.  Phyllis Diller
• Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.   Robert Louis Stevenson
• Platonic friendship:  the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.  Loeb Sophie Irene
• Sense of humour: Being able to laugh at your friends’ misfortunes.
• Sympathy: What one usually gives to a friend or relative when he doesn’t want to lend him money.
• The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.  Ambrose Bierce
• Truce: Friendship.   Ambrose Bierce
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Friends and enemies

• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.  Abraham Lincoln
• An enemy can partly ruin a man but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.   Mark Twain
• Friend: One who has the same enemies as you have.
• Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.   Thomas Jones
• He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.   Oscar Wilde
• He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.   Eddie Cantor
• Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter – hug ’em so tight they can’t wiggle.  Lyndon B. Johnson
• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.  Oscar Wilde
• May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.   Voltaire
• Money can’t buy friends but it can get you a better class of enemy.   Spike Milligan

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More lighthearted friend quotes

• A bad cold wouldn’t be so annoying if it weren’t for the advice of our friends.  Kin Hubbard
• A fool and his money is a friend indeed.
• A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.  Joseph Addison
• A lifelong friend is one you haven’t borrowed money from yet.  Dylan Thomas
• A Merry Christmas to all my friends except two.  W.C. Fields
• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.  Markus Zusak
• All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.   Dorothy Parker
• Animals may be our friends; but they won’t pick you up at the airport.   Bobcat’ Goldthwait
• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.  Oscar Wilde
• Apart from health, family, friends, possessions, memories, rights and reputation, what do you have to lose.  Ashleigh Brilliant
• Ask anybody over 30 – if they tell you they have more than 10 friends you know they’re counting co-workers.  Tom Papa
• Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.  Emily Wing Smith
• Beware my friend… you are skating on hot water.
• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.   Tom Waits
• Even when I was a kid my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street.   Daniel Tosh
• Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.   John Singer Sargent
• Everyone has a friend who laughs funnier than he jokes.
• Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.   W.C. Fields
• A good friend is like a good bra, hard to find, supportive, comfortable and always close to your heart.
• Friends are forever. Until they get in a relationship.
• Friends are God’s apology for relations.  Hugh Kingsmill
• Friends are like condoms: They protect you when things get hard.
• Friends are like fiddle-strings and they must not be screwed too tightly.   Irish proverb
• Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
• Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
• Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.  Laurie Colwin
• Greater love hath no man than this to lay down his friends for his life.   Jeremy Thorpe
• Guys I’ve been meeting have the worst pickup lines like: “Hey what’s your friend’s name? ”   Melanie Reno
• He’s a fine friend; he stabs you in the front.   Leonard L. Levinson
• His faults are buried with him beneath this stone. His virtues (if he had any) are remembered by his friends.   Epitaph
• Honest criticism is hard to take particularly from a relative a friend an acquaintance or a stranger.   Franklin Jones
• I always like to know everything about my new friends and nothing about my old ones.   Oscar Wilde
• I don’t want to lose weight; my tongue and my taste buds are the only friends I got.   Joey Kola
• I get all my exercise from acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.  Chauncey Depew
• I got a lotta best friends.; some o’ them I don’t even hardly know.   Archie Bunker
• I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.  Virginia Woolf
• I have to go now. I’m having an old friend for dinner.   Anthony Hopkins
• I have two friends, Steve and Martin. But I’d happily replace both for the friendship of Steve Martin.  Jarod Kintz
• I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good book… or a friend who’s read one.  Oscar Levant
• I was playing chess with my friend and he said …Let’s make this more interesting’ so we stopped playing chess.   Matt Kirshen
• I was such a nerd in high school I didn’t even have imaginary friends; I had imaginary bullies.   Brian Posehn
• I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.   Emo Phillips
• I’m a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.   Oscar Levant
• I’m forty years old.  I’m done with faking friendships and orgasms.
• If Barbie is so popular why do you have to buy her friends?   Steven Wright
• If I ever go missing, I want my picture on a wine bottle instead of a milk carton. This way my friends will know I’m missing.
• If I had known the difference between the words ‘antidote’ and ‘anecdote,’ one of my good friends would still be living.  John McDowell
• If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you… the next time he’s in need.  Chiet’s Lament
• In the language of flowers the yellow rose means friendship, the red rose means love, and the orchid means business.  E.C.McKenzie
• In times of prosperity, friends will be plenty in times of adversity not one in twenty.   English proverb
• 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
• It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.   Wayne Federman
• Lord if I can’t be skinny please let all my friends be fat.   Dave Allen
• Many a man’s lost his best friend by marrying her.   Buddy Ebsen
• My friend said I couldn’t start a conversation with the most beautiful girl in the room. Will you help me prove he was wrong?
• My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.   Rodney Dangerfield
• My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him!
• Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
• Never forget a friend – especially if he owes you.   Fortune cookie
• No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.   Groucho Marx
• One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.   George Carlin
• Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.  Joseph Joubert
• Outside a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.  Groucho Marx
• Sewing Circle: Where friendship hangs by a thread.
• Sex again Peg?   We’ve been married seventeen years now; can’t we just be friends?   Ed O’Neill
• She’s so fat, she’s my two best friends. Joan Rivers
• The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend.  Paris Hilton
• The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.  Jay McInerney
• The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.  Doug Larson Howe
• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.  G.K. Chesterton
• The only difference between friends and lovers is about four minutes.   Scott Roeben
• The only exercise I get is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.   Peter O’Toole
• The only exercise I take is acting as pall-bearer to my friends who have indulged in strenuous exercise!  Royal S. Copeland
• The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you. Rita Mae Brown
• The usual drawback to success is that it annoys one’s friends so.   P.G. Wodehouse
• There are a good many fools who call me a friend and also a good many friends who call me a fool.   Winston Churchill
• There are only three things in life that matter – good friends, good chocolate and, oh dear, what was that other one?
• There are three faithful friends, an old wife an old dog and ready money.   Benjamin Franklin
• There are two kinds of friends – those who are around when you need them and those who are around when they need you.
• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.  Linda Grayson
• To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl’s faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girlfriends.  Edwin Lillie Miller
• To find a friend one must close one eye; to keep him – two.   Norman Douglas
• To find out a girl’s faults praise her to her girlfriends.   Benjamin Franklin
• Try the garlic diet.  You don’t actually lose weight but your friends think you look thinner at a distance.
• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.  Evelyn Waugh
• When a man’s best friend is his dog that dog has a problem.   Edward Abbey
• When I was a kid I had two friends and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.   Rita Rudner
• When you’re in jail a good friend will be trying to bail you out. a best friend will be in the cell next to you saying…”Damn that was fun.”   Groucho Marx
• You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket… I’d miss you heaps and think of you often.
• You ever get a new cell phone and you’re too lazy to transfer all the numbers over so you just stop being friends with a bunch of people?   Jordan Rubin
• Your friends are God’s way of apologizing for your relatives.  Wayne Dyer
• Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.
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