Good Friend Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

  William Ellery Channing

  Taken, Blessing, May

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• If it be the chief point of friendship to
  comply with a friends motions and inclinations,
  he possesses this in a eminent degree;
  he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk,
  which is more than many good friends
  can pretend to do.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Degrees, Chiefs

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.87

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• Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

  Moliere

  Book, Bottles, Fortune

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• A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Friendship, Conversation, Good Friendship

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• You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Best Friend, Family, Blood

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• The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

  Bob Goff

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Feb 02, 2015

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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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• If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

  S. E. Hinton

  Friendship, Real Friends, Two Friends

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.28, Penguin

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• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  Carl Sandburg

  Trust, Judgment

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

  Jon Katz

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Being Happy, Real Friends

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 46

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• A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.

  Janette Oke

  Friendship, Remember, One Line Friendship

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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, Friendship

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• My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

  Vivien Leigh

  Husband, Firsts, Reason Why

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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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, Friendship, Happy

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Brother

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

  Johnny Ramone

  Friendship, Success, Men

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.156, Abrams

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, Bff

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Mistake

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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