Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.
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A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
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I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the way.
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A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
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True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked
Bernard Meltzer
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Maxwell Maltz
The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
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Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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If friends were flowers, I'd pick you
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one
C.S. Lewis
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson Gentry
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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.
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A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume
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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.
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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasgow
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting
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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
Anonymous
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
Anonymous
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Anonymous
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
Grace Pulpit
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
D.H. Lawrence
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
Anonymous
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
Anonymous
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
Anonymous
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Anonymous
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Brontë
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.
Anonymous
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.
Jeanette Winterson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Rod McKuen
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
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
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
American Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Anonymous
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
Friendship is Love, without his wings.
Lord Byron
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
Diana Cortes
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me
Anonymous
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
Anonymous
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
E.W. Howe
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
Edith Wharton
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 Brault
'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Benjamin Franklin
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Anonymous
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anäis Nin
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
In my friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton
Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
Ben Franklin
Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
You’ll make more friends in ten minutes by taking an interest in others than in a month trying to get others interested in you.
Anonymous
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Cicero
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katherine Hathaway
Talk first to strangers. It’s great education for both of you - and a friend maker.
Anonymous
We better tolerate imperfect friends. Perfect ones wouldn’t tolerate us.
Anonymous
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Friendliness is the only cement that will permanently unite different races.
Anonymous
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
Friendship is contagious. Too many of us wait to catch it from others, instead of letting others catch it from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better have a friend who does both good and evil, than one who does neither.
Anonymous
Your biggest protection from your enemies is to make them your friends.
Anonymous
When we give another a lift, the exercise give us strength.
Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Anonymous
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Tagore
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.
Theocritus
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin
Speaking ill of others is a cheap, dishonest way to praise ourselves.
Anonymous
If you’d be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
Benjamin Franklin
Choose your friends carefully. You are what they are.
Virginia Chase
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Lewis Stevenson
A true friend is the greatest possesion.
Ben Franklin
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Aesop
A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The example of a good companion and a bad companion is like that of the seller of musk, and the one who blows the blacksmith’s bellows. So as for the seller of musk then either he will grant you some, or you buy some from him, or at least you enjoy a pleasant smell from him. As for the one who blows the blacksmith’s bellows then either he will burn your clothes or you will get an offensive smell from him.
Muhammad
Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To win friends instantly, admire everything and everybody, and express it freely.
Anonymous
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
True friends are those who know the worst about us, but allow for our intentions.
Anonymous
My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed
Kahlil Gibran
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
Ben Franklin
Never talk about your own virtues or others’ faults.
Anonymous
A road to a friend’s house is never long.
Danish proverbs
Never neglect a stranger. He might become your friend - maybe your benefactor.
Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
You are losing the art of worthwhile living if you can no longer make new friends.
Anonymous
When someone does something good, applaud; it will make two people happy.
Anonymous
No love, friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some marks on it forever.
Francois Marie
If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Search others for their virtues, yourself for your faults.
Anonymous
Are you lonely? Stretch a hand to one unfriended and your loneliness is ended.
Anonymous
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle
No one is rich enough to be without friends. Make new friends but keep the old. New are silver, old are gold.
Anonymous
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripedes
A person is likely to follow the faith of his friend, so look at whom you befriend.
Muhammad