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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stupid, Blessing

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• There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Lying, Gossip

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

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• I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Looks, Way, Realizing

  Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La!”, p.21, Multnomah

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• True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

  C. S. Lewis

  Goal, Gazing, Faces

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• It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Philosophy, Distance

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• Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.

  Joan Rivers

  Dog, Love You, People

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• But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Mean, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.346, Wordsworth Editions

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• We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Country, Freedom

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• All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

  Lois Wyse

  Friendship, Ifs

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• A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

  Simon Sinek

  Protocol, True Friend Is

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2011

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• Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

  Seth Godin

  Feel Better, Giving, Advice

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• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, Heart, Life Is Short

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• Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

  Lucy Larcom

  Glimpse, Very True, True Friend Is

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “As it is in Heaven”

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• Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Artist, Frozen

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.32, Anchor

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• The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Giving, Doe

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  Offending, Risk, Important

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

  Yousuf Karsh

  May, Pay, Able

  Yousuf Karsh (2003). “Karsh: A Biography in Images”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, World, Firsts

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.13, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teacher, Choices, Priorities

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

  Whitney Cummings

  Women, Filters, Instagram

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

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• Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

  Vanna Bonta

  Friends, Enemy

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• A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

  Arnold Bennett

  Achievement, Likes, Accomplish

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• True friends are trustworthy angels.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Trustworthy

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Sep 05, 2014

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