Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Source Unknown


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb


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


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


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  ~Swedish Proverb


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 Craik


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne


Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  ~Elbert Hubbard


When 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


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow


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


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts


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.  ~Source Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit


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


There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Source Unknown


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.  ~Source Unknown


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Source Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Source Unknown


It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook


It's 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, Beloved


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  ~George MacDonald


A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.  ~Source Unknown


Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing


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


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.  ~Jeanette Winterson~


Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some people move our souls to dance.  They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.  Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.  They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Source Unknown


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~


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust


Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.  ~Source Unknown


It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.  ~Epicurus


The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  ~William Blake


If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth.  And to my heart, you already are.  ~Anonymous


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine


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


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


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.  ~Source Unknown


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Source Unknown


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


The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.  ~Source Unknown


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine Mansfield


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


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


Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.  ~Francesco Guicciardini


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.  ~Dag Hammarskjold


Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.  ~Source Unknown


Friendship is 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


Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Source Unknown


There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


People change and forget to tell each other.  ~Lillian Hellman


In my friend, I find a second self.  ~Isabel Norton


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him I may think aloud.  I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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