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

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Good Friend

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• The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Life, Positive

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

  Kathleen Norris

  Art, Natural Gifts, Born

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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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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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Positive, Family, Loyalty

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

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, True Love

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Life Is, Real Friends

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Kings, True Friend

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, True Friend, Loneliness

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• 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

  Love, Happy, True Friend

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

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

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• The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Best Friend

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