Lost Friendship Quotes

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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• You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

  Mark Twain

  People, Losing Friends, Sometimes

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• Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

  R. K. Milholland

  Mistake, Forgiving, Done

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• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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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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• Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Friendship, Real Friends, Weight

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Self, People

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• Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

  Charles Kingsley

  Friendship, Best Friend, Glasses

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• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, Real, Losing Friends

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• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Two Friends

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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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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• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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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

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

  Sean Covey

  Friendship, Best Friend, Losing Friends

  Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

  Heather Brewer

  Heartbreak, Pain, Betrayal

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• And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Friendship, Country, Ties

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fall

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

  Jewel

  Being Sad, Needs, World

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• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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