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What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
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
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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