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)
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. (D.T. Gentry)
Friendship takes many years to establish; so do not fall out with a friend over a single disagreement. (Sadi, “Gulistan”)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. (Oscar Wilde)
Do not reveal to friends all the secrets you possess; they may one day become enemies. Do not inflict on enemies every injury in your power; they may one day become friends. (Sadi, “Gulistan”)
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. (Joseph Conrad)
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. (Blaise Pascal)
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)
True friends are like jewels, precious and rare. False ones are like autumn leaves, found everywhere. (Unknown)
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? (Abraham Lincoln)
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. (Joan Churton Collins)
Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes. (Irish saying)
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.(Elizabeth Foley)
You are my friend when you can guard my failure, challenge my thought and celebrate my success. (Unknown)
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. (Henry B. Adams)
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. (Len Wein)
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. (Jim Morrison)
A friend is the person who knows all about you and still loves you. (Elbert Hubbert)
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. (Mark Twain)
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)
It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. (Benjamin Franklin)
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. (Solon)
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you… then you would realize what a truly special person you are. (Barbara A. Billings)
“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. (Louisa May Alcott)
The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend. (Ann Kaiser Stearns)
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. (from The Pioneer Girls Leaders’ Handbook)
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