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“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.”

“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.”

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”

“In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

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

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

“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.”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”