Nice Friend Quotes

• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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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, Friendship

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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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• She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 01, 2013

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• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

  Donna Roberts

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

  Douglas Pagels

  Friendship, Cute, Best Friend

  Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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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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• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Beautiful, Real Friends

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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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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• Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Real, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Friendship, Falling In Love, Real

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Needs, Moments

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