Friendship Day Quotes - Page 5

• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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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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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My friends are my estate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Friendship, Family

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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

  Plautus

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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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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• Your friend is your needs answered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Best Friend, Self

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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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, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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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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• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Friendship, Family, Fate

  Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.

  Caroline Norton

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

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