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

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A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

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Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

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Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

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True friends are like diamonds -- bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

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At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

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Friendship -- my definition is built on two things: respect and trust. Both elements have to be there and it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

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I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare -- and precious as a pearl.

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Once you have mates who know you, right down under the this-and-that you decide people want to see today, then there's no room left for the someday person who'll magic you into being all your finest dreams. You've turned solid: you're the person your mates know, forever.

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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one's self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.

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I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

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Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends.

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Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour
True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.

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Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

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The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it. Choose wisely. The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.

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Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

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Friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there.

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Never ignore your intuition about friendships and people's intentions towards you.

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Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

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It has always fascinated me that we're prepared to end a romantic relationship that is no longer working but are generally reluctant to do the same with friendships. Not all friendships are meant to last for life. People evolve, and friendships evolve with them.

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Sometimes all a person needs to turn themselves around is one good friend.

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You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.

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I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

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It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

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It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

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Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
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Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.

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If you aren't respected by someone, how can the friendship with them be valued?

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If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood.
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If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

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

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

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True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

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If you're trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern... what better gift?

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Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

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Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

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We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

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Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

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That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.".

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Don't walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don't walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend.

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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

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If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or a friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis is the lowest level.

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It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

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

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One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

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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.

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

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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

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A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

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Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

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One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

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I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.

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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

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A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

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Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

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There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it.

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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
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True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

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

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
