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The reward of
friendship is
itself. The person who hopes
for anything else
does not
understand what
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By friendship you mean the greatest
love, the greatest usefulness,
the most open
communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth,
the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds
of
which brave men and women are capable.
Jeremy Taylor
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Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test--
Time and change--are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray;
Friendship never knows decay.
For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we our youth renew.
Joseph Parry
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If friendship is firmly established between two
hearts,
they do not need to exchange news.
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| Edward Lavin
Once I was very sick.
It was clear that the cure for this illness was
in my own
hands. However, it involved two things that I found most
difficult
to do--exercise and good diet. Most of the
people I knew, aware of
my detestation for broccoli and
walking, never mentioned these hateful things.
Two of my
closest friends, however, were really pests. "Good
food, good food,
walk, walk, walk." I would have
like to have killed them. But, and this is the point,
which of these were my real friends--those who were so
nice that
they never mentioned the hateful remedies or
those who so loved my life
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True
friendship is a plant of low growth,
and must undergo and
withstand
the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled
to the appellation. |
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Those who seek friends without faults
stay forever without
friends.
Anon |
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There
is no wilderness like a life without friends;
friendship
multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes;
it is a
unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracian |
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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.
Anon |
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Without
friends no one would choose to live,
though they had all other goods.
Aristotle |
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Helen
Keller
My
friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand
ways
they have turned my limitations into beautiful
privileges,
and enabled me to walk serene and happy
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Friends are the
sunshine of life.
John Hay |
Friends
are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
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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 pouring them all 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
with a breath
of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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It's important to our
friends to believe that we are
unreservedly frank with
them, and important to
our friendship
that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
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The friend of my
adversity I shall always cherish most.
I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom
of my dark hours
than those who are so ready
to enjoy with me the sunshine
of my prosperity.
Ulysses
S. Grant
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Many a friendship --
long, loyal, and self-sacrificing --
rested at first upon
no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick W. Faber
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| Friendship is a topic
that's dear to my heart, for I've always had a great
number of problems with the whole concept. When I was
young, our family moved regularly (military), so I never
really learned how to be a friend on a long-term basis. I
never had time to reach any level of comfort or security
in a friendship. Add to this the great amount of fear
that I have of people, and you get someone who had a very
hard time establishing, maintaining, and nurturing
friendships. The bottom line was that I didn't ever feel
that people wanted to be around me--there was always
something better that they'd rather be doing. So I didn't
call someone and say "Let's go see a movie," or
"Let's go hiking tomorrow." I wanted to, but I
never did. So I ended up being alone, wishing I weren't.
Even now I still carry that fear as a part of me, but I
can show my caring in spite of the fear--I haven't gotten
rid of it, but usually I'm able to work with it,
recognize it, and deal with it on my terms, not its terms. It's
not easy, though--there are still plenty of times when I feel I don't
belong, when I feel that people would much rather be with someone else
than with me.
But more and more I learn the value
of those people who will stand by me through anything, and the value
of standing by my friends through anything. More than anything
else, I've learned to lower my expectations of my friends in one
important area--I don't need constant affirmation that they consider
me to be a friend. I accept that I am a friend, and I don't need
to hear it to believe it.
Still, there are few people whom I
would consider to be true friends. Part of that is due to the
type of person I am. I'm not very extroverted, and I am somewhat
guarded in my relations with others. But I've come to realize
that's okay, and that's part of who I am. I would much rather
have few good friends than many superficial friendships. But I
also know now that if I want more friends, it's up to me to make them,
and not up to them to come to me and introduce themselves.
If you're like I was
and you want to have more friends, pick up the phone, or
the next time you're talking to someone you'd like to be
friends with, suggest a cup of coffee somewhere or a walk or a
hike. You'd be surprised how many people would
like to be your friends, if only you'd let them. If you're more
comfortable with fewer friends, let that be and accept it. No
matter what, it's important that we treat others with the dignity and
respect that our best friends deserve, and eventually we'll be able to
call every person "friend," whether we know them or not.
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It is great to have friends when one
is young, but indeed
it is still more so when you are
getting old.
When we are young, friends are, like
everything else,
a matter of course. In the old days we
know
what it means to have them.
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I have always differentiated between two
types of friends: those who want proofs of friendship,
and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself, and
the others for themselves.
Gerard de Nerval |
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Do
not protect yourself by a fence,
but rather by your
friends.
Czech proverb |
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The friendships which last are those
wherein each friend respects
the other's dignity to the
point of not really wanting anything from the other.
Cyril Connolly |
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True friends don't
sympathize with your weakness;
instead they help summon your strength.
anonymous |
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Each friend represents a
world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is
only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin |
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One's friends
are that part of the human race
with which one can be human.
George
Santayana |
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Friendship is the
highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel de Montaigne |
It's
the friends you can call up
at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene
Dietrich |
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Lots of people
want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus
with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey |
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A
friend is someone who allows you distance
but is never far away.
Noah
ben Shea |
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The
happiest business in all the world
is that of making friends,
And no investment on the street
pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds,
more love than rate percent,
And those who give in friendship's name
shall reap what they have spent.
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Human
beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing
is its friendships and intimacies. . . and yet they leave their
friendships
and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the
roadside,
expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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Genuine
human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective
of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare
and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend.
The more you remain
open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you.
If you forget
or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own
benefit.
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