Genuine Friendship Quotes

• Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

  Georg Ebers

  Friendship, Two Friends, Genuine Friends

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

  Dalai Lama

  Genuine Friends, Chinese, Essentials

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  Austin O'Malley

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Two

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• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

  Thomas Hughes

  Blessed, Making Friends, New Friends

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

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• Friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

  Francis Quarles

  Friendship, Genuine Friends, Literature

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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• I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

  Helen Simonson

  Passion, Views, Two

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• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

  John Conyers

  Family, Children, Caring

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• I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

  Jessye Norman

  Life Lesson, Communication, Reading

  "Jessye Norman: By the Book". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

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• What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Firsts, Steps

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.224, RosettaBooks

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