Special Friendship Quotes

• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Friendship, Christmas

  "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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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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• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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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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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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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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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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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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• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Success, Inspirational Love

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• Some friends leave footprints in your heart

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Two Friends, Friends Come And Go

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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