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friendship2 - friendship3
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To have a good
friend is
one of the highest
delights of life;
to be a good friend
is
one of the noblest and
most difficult undertakings.
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[A] workable and effective way to meet and
overcome difficulties is
to take on someone else's
problems. It is a strange fact but you can
often handle
two difficulties--your own and somebody else's--better
than
you can handle your own alone. That truth is based
on a subtle law of self-giving
or outgoingness whereby
you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
Norman Vincent Peale
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So long as we love, we
serve; so long as we are loved by others,
I should say
that we are almost indispensable;
and no person is useless
while he or she has friends.
Robert
Louis Stevenson
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Blessed
are they who have the gift of making friends, for
it is
one of God's best gifts. It involves many things,
but above all, the power of going out of one's self,
and
appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas
Hughes
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It is
the steady and merciless increase of occupations,
the
augmented speed at which we are always trying to live,
the crowding of each day with more work than it can
profitably hold,
which has cost us, among other things,
the undisturbed enjoyment
of friends. Friendship takes
time, and we have no time to give it.
Agnes Repplier (1894)
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A
true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists
readily,
adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends
courageously,
and continues a friend unchangeably.
William
Penn |
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Oh, the
miraculous energy that flows between two people who care
enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing
to take
the risks of being totally open, of listening, of
responding with
the whole heart. How much we can do for
each other! |
Alex
Noble |
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The
most I can do for my
friends is simply to be
their friend.
I have no
wealth
to bestow upon
them. If they know
that
I am happy in loving them,
they will want no other
reward. Is not friendship
divine in this?
Henry
David Thoreau
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Of
all the gifts that wise Providence
grants us to make life
full and happy,
friendship is
the most beautiful.
Epicurus |
I didn't
find my friends;
the good God gave them to me.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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You can make more
friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people
than you can in two years of trying to get other
people interested in you.
Dale
Carnegie |
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,
and let those few be well tried
before you give them your
confidence. True friendship is a plant
of slow
growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
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We rejoice in the joys of our
friends as much as we do our own,
and we are equally
grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise
people
will
feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves,
and
whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own
pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.
Cicero
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Oh, the comfort, the
inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but
to pour them
all out, chaff and grain together, knowing
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.
George Eliot
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Silences
make the real conversations between friends.
Not the
saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret
Lee Runbeck |
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We
take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our
room tight,
and our clothing sufficient; but who provides
wisely that they
shall not be wanting in the best property
of all--friends?
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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Don't
flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say
disagreeable
things to your intimates. The nearer you
come into relation with a person,
the more necessary do
tact and courtesy become.
Oliver
Wendell Holmes
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You
can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of
yourself
he or she doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter |
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I want a
warm and faithful friend,
To cheer the adverse hour;
Who ne'er to flatter will descend,
Nor bend the knee to power,--
A friend to chide me when I'm wrong,
My inmost soul to see;
And that my friendship prove as strong
For him as his for me.
John Quincy Adams |
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I
am treating you as my friend, asking you
to share my
present minuses in the hope
I can ask you to share my
future pluses.
Katherine Mansfield |
The only
service a friend can really render
is to keep up your
courage by holding up
to you a mirror in which you can
see
a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw |
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Good
friendships are fragile things and require as much care
as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne |
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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
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Friendship
is the source of the greatest pleasures,
and without
friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas |
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I awoke this
morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the
new.
Shall I not call God, the beautiful, who daily showeth
himself so to me in his gifts.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
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I destroy my enemies by
making them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln |
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Be slow
in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin |
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