Friendship Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Silly, Weather, Phones

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

  James F. Cooper

  Motivational, Spring, Heart

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Eye

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  If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Peace, Enemy

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• 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 Nestell Bovee

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Bad Friend

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

  Jay McInerney

  Family, Inspiring, Funny Friend

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  William Shakespeare

  Being Happy, Real Friends, Good Friend

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 46

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• May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

  Edward Ramsay

  Wings, Rust, May

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• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Book, Real Friends

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, True Friend, Real Friends

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

  William Glasser

  Relationship, Marriage, Sex

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Positive, Leadership

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Funny Friend, Cute Best Friend, World

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• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.

  Caroline Norton

  Best Friend, True Friend, School

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

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• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  True Friend, Heart, Real Friends

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• The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  True Friend, Men, Doe

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Flames, Wind, Sublime

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Cutting, People, Life Is

  Walter Dean Myers (1996). “Slam!”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patience, Truth, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

  William Hazlitt

  True Friend, Fear, Enemy

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

  Ann Brashares

  Inspirational Love, Pain, Loving Someone

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Friend, Grief, Healing

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

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