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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides

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

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

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 advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran

Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant

A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle

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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Jennifer Aniston

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. Howe

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

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