Friendship Quotes

• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Best Friend, True Friend, Heart

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• Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.
  New-made friendships, like new wine,
  Age will mellow and refine.
  Friendships that have stood the test -
  Time and change - are surely best;
  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
  Friendship never knows decay.
  For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
  Once more we our youth renew.
  But old friends, alas! may die,
  New friends must their place supply.
  Cherish friendship in your breast-
  New is good, but old is best;
  Make new friends, but keep the old;
  Those are silver, these are gold.

  Joseph Parry

  Wine, Wrinkles, Hair

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• To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.

  Laura Ortiz

  Smile, Romantic, Heart

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  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Thank You, True Friend, Educational

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• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Good Friend

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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, Best Friend

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

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Trust, Spiritual

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• When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Thank You, Thankful, True Friend

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.45, Revell

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• 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, Best Friend, Future

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

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  Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Good Friend

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• Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

  Margot Frank

  Change, Heart, People

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thanksgiving

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• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Real Friends, Math

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• Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

  Robert Breault

  True Friend, Real, Lying

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Positive, Family, Loyalty

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Bff, Forever

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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

  Fun, True Friend, Live Life

  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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• True friendship is never serene.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  True Friend, Real Friends, Cute Best Friend

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• The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

  John Marsden

  Inspiring Love, Tests, Friends Forever

  John Marsden (2010). “Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.182, Pan Australia

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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

  Happiness, Happy, Thanksgiving

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

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• How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

  William Rotsler

  Real, Eulogy, Wonderful

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