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Famous Quotes about friendship“ Make your every thought, word and deed such that the impact gives someone courage and zeal and enthusiasm. ” “ No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. ” “ In order to create good relationships... - with your mind, think about what you have to learn from others, - with your eyes, look into good qualities of others, - with your words, recognise, value and appreciate their accomplishments, - with your actions, cooperate and do something for others. ” “ A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend in times of distress and helplessness. ” “ What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ” “ Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ” “ Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ” “ Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ” “ An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ” “ Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. ” “ More valuable than the things we give to each other are the gifts of virtues we pass on quietly to others through our selfless and noble actions. These gifts are truly precious because they are imperishable and they multiply the more we share them. ” “ Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, arent you already there? ” “ We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. ” “ The best kind of friend is the kind, you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away, feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. ” “ It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. ” “ He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere. ” “ Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ” “ Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ” “ A friend is, as it were, a second self. ” “ I cannot afford to overlook the influence that other people may have on me. It might seem like a simple everyday occurrence - my friends tell me in the strictest confidence that such and such a person is like this and does so-and-so. I listen and accept without question because of the friendship. My attitude and actions then become influenced by my friend's words, and I find myself acting and reacting in accordance with the information fed to me. This is the negative influence of gossip in action. ” “ A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ” “ True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ” “ Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends ” “ Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one ” “ A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ” “ A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ” “ God is that friend and it is up to you to break the silence and bring Him into your life at every moment of the day. God is love, and that is the easiest way to find Him, through love. If you keep your heart open and let love flow, God's love will fill you with divine energy and help you along the path, guiding you to overcome all obstacles. It is a long journey, but it becomes shorter and easier once you share it with the Lord. He knows the path, and will guide you all the way to the very end, to ultimate liberation. ” “ If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, dont you think that we might see each other once or twice? ” “ Brotherhood means understanding that a cry of pain means the same in all languages and so does a smile. ” “ A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else. ” “ When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ” “ A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. ” “ A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ” “ He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. ” “ Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." ” “ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ” “ Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship. ” “ Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ” “ Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. ” “ A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need a lift. A friend is someone we treasure for our friendship is a gift. A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy, and grace. And makes the whole world we live in a better and happier place. ” “ A good friend is better than silver and gold ” “ 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. ” “ Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ” “ Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. ” “ I make it a point to write something every day, even if it's only to myself. In fact, it is mostly to myself. How else do I get to know me? And how else do I get to know what I know until I hear what I have to say? The most important conversation in all our worlds is with ourselves. One way to converse is to take two words and then let your mind flow into them, around them and through them, and then out through your pen on to a blank white page. It doesn't matter what comes -but be sure that you will reveal yourself to yourself, and if you keep doing it I can guarantee you will be astounded by revelation. Start your journal today. ” “ Dont be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. ” “ Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ” “ Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ” “ Chaos is a friend of mine. ” “ Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ” “ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ” “ 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? ” |




