Happy Friendship Quotes - Page 2

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship, True Friend, Real

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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

Friendship, True Friend, Grief

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

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If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Tim McGraw

Friendship, Teamwork, Bridges

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship, Best Friend, Clever

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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 Breault

Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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

Henri Nouwen

Friendship, Pain, True Friend

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

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.

Doug Larson

Funny, Friendship, Patience

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To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Simple, Sweat, Simplicity

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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 best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert

Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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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

Friendship, Fun, True Friend

Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles R. Swindoll

Friendship, Fun, True Friend

Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

Samuel Johnson

Inspirational, Friendship, Book

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

Friendship, Relationship, Leadership

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Richard Bach

Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Love, Friendship, Happy

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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

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Donna Roberts

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Friendship, Positive, Family

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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

Elbert Hubbard

Life, Friendship, True Friend

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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