True Friend Quotes - Page 3

• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Good Friend, Silence

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• If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

  Muhammad Ali

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  Epictetus

  Love, Lying, Philosophical

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• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "What Is Intelligence?" by Max Miller, bigthink.com.

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• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Friendship, Real Friends, Good Friend

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• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  Len Wein

  Friendship, Best Friend, Patience

  "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

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• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Wine, Real Friends

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

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• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, Grief

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

  Caleb Carr

  Friendship, Jobs, Loss

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  Don't 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.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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• It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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

  Mary Catherwood

  Friendship, Real Friends, Years

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Real Friends

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cute, Friendship, Thankful

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• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

  E. B. White

  Friendship, Charlotte's Web, Good Writers

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

  Theophrastus

  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, Bff Forever

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  When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

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