Best Friend Quotes - Page 11

• Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

  Arthur Miller

  Smell, Rose, Trying

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Funny Friendship, Reading, Book

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• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Life, Family, Friends

  "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real Friends, Hands

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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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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Networking, Meeting New People

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