Friendship Quotes

• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Best Friend, True Friend, Heart

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• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Favors, Bigs, Arrangements

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• To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.

  Laura Ortiz

  Smile, Romantic, Heart

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• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Family, Fate, Friendship Day

  Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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• Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.
  New-made friendships, like new wine,
  Age will mellow and refine.
  Friendships that have stood the test -
  Time and change - are surely best;
  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
  Friendship never knows decay.
  For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
  Once more we our youth renew.
  But old friends, alas! may die,
  New friends must their place supply.
  Cherish friendship in your breast-
  New is good, but old is best;
  Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.

  Joseph Parry

  Wine, Wrinkles, Hair

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Thank You, True Friend, Educational

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  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Good Friend

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• 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 Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Best Friend

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Trust, Spiritual

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• Friends, though absent, are still present.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Absence, Absent Friends, Stills

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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• [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, God, Spiritual

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.85, Penguin

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Best Friend, Money, True Friend

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Thank You, Thankful, True Friend

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.45, Revell

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• 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

  Life, Best Friend, Future

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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  Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Good Friend

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• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Real Friends, Pleasure

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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  In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thanksgiving

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• A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

  William Arthur Ward

  Valleys, Walks, Beside You

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• Say what you want about aging,
  it's still the only way to have old friends.

  Robert Breault

  Real Friends, Old Friends, Getting Older

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• If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Romantic, Confidence

  "Fictional character: Christopher Robin". "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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• But remember, when it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!

  Eiichiro Oda

  Remember, Remember When

  "One Piece". Manga by Eiichiro Oda, 1997.

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