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“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.”

Humans Enough Asks Easy Friendship Love Is Impossible Materials Sight Endure Absurd Ask Me Human Love Without Friends

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.”

Hard Easy Friendship Wind Misery Thee Faithful No Friends Faithful Friends

Author:Richard Barnfield

“[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.”

Easy Friendship Affair Jail Love Affair Easy To Get

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.”

Knows Sometimes Easy Friendship Bears Comfortable

Author:May Sarton

“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.”

Needs Should Book Used Easy Friendship

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.”

Knows Soul Hard Easy Understanding Friendship Quality Friends Wit Disposition Inconstancy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”

People Hard Life Is Easy Friendship Cutting Life Is Easy

Book:Slam!

Source: Slam!

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

Source: The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character, paintings of nature and the passions, and miscellaneous pieces ... With ... notes, and Scriptural references ... by the Rev. T. Price

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“Yes, 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. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks

“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”

Needs Giving Helping Humor Funny Easy Friendship Friends Friend In Need

Author:Charlie Chaplin