Friendship Quotes - Page 5

• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, True Friend, Real Friends

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• No friendship is an accident.

  O. Henry

  Inspiring, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Depressing, Betrayal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Bad Friend

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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.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Time

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• It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Inspiring, Novelists, Sometimes

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

  Thomas Hughes

  Thank You, Blessed, Self

  "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Uplifting

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Where there are friends there is wealth.

  Plautus

  Relationship, Real Friends, Family And Friends

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Relationship, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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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

  True Friend, Grief, Healing

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

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patience, Truth, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

  Mason Cooley

  Funny Love, Sex, Funny Relationship

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• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Marriage, Grief

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

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• Do not save your loving speeches
  For your friends till they are dead;
  Do not write them on their tombstones,
  Speak them rather now instead.

  Anna Mickelson

  Inspirational, Death, Tombstone

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• When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

  Ann Brashares

  Inspirational Love, Pain, Loving Someone

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Say what you want about aging,
  it's still the only way to have old friends.

  Robert Breault

  Real Friends, Old Friends, Getting Older

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• A friend is a second self.

  Aristotle

  Life, Self, Love At First Sight

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335

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• Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Cutting, People, Life Is

  Walter Dean Myers (1996). “Slam!”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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  Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Best Friend, Birthday, Memories

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• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  Pam Brown

  Silly, Weather, Phones

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• Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

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• Friendship is a sheltering tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Real Friends, Tree, Shelter

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.73

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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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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, True Friend, Kindness

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