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“Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.”

World Persons Long Stills Important Certain Friendship Gone Mark

Author:Art Buchwald

“It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.”

Persons Friendship Clear Good Relationship

Author:Byron Katie

“The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.”

Ifs Persons Friendship Principles Courageous Not Afraid

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”

Inspirational Feels Persons Important Matter Friendship Kindness Praise Busy Take Time Busy Life Being Busy Busy Person

Book:The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.”

World Persons Grows Friendship Silence Fashion Demand Labor Deny Belittle

Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.”

Source: Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.”

Persons Character Friendship Constant Intimacy Steady Uniforms Unchangeable

Book:Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

Source: Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

“I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.”

World May Persons Soul Friendship Capable Proof Funeral Tenderness Endearment

Author:Katherine Philips

“Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.”

Persons Reality Law Strong Force Friendship Marriage Friends Married Property Possession Division Abolish Cement

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”

May Persons Together Past Form Friendship Wonderful Tree Circumstances Woods Curious Intimacy Forty Noticing Congeniality Old Wood

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.”

Persons Force Friendship Perfect Grief Example Virtuous Distress Good Examples Emulation Perfect Friendship

Author:Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

“A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.”

Ifs Humans Persons Bigs Care Young Born Friendship Human Beings Poor Rich Dog Smart Jokes Athlete Protector Dog Lover Rich Or Poor Best Athlete He Doesn't Care Grooming Dogs

Author:Louis Sabin

“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.”

Persons House Friendship Emotional True Friendship Drawers Friendship Day

Author:Pam Brown

“Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.”

Should Humans Persons Long Reason Life Is Asks Found Friendship Loss Dangerous Serious Friends Casts Human Life Abandon Possessed Compelled Chill Toss Serious Things

Author:Thomas Moore

“Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.”

Persons Art Born Friendship Natural Inspirational Friendship Spiritual Gifts Natural Gifts

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”

Men May Persons Father Speak Term Friendship Enemy Cases Wife Son Husband Bitterness Father Son

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”

Persons Friendship Relationship Relation Contrary Courtesy Holmes Disagreeable Tact

Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.”

Ifs Writing Trying Persons Friendship Forget Pages My Best Friend

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“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.”

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

Way Love Persons Friendship Knowing Relationship Without Hope Friendship Love Knowing A Person

Author:Walter Benjamin

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

Thinking Giving Persons Light Beautiful Causes Friendship Gratitude Basketball Yoga Grateful Appreciation Flames Sparks Be Grateful Thank You Thankfulness Theologian Thankful Being Thankful People In Your Life Abundant Life Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation I Am Grateful Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Gratitude Thank You Gratitude Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude I Am Thankful Bright Lights Inspirational Gratitude Thankful For You Thanksgiving Holiday Inspirational Thanksgiving Words Of Gratitude Attitude Of Gratitude Love Gratitude Thank You Appreciation Grateful For You Grateful Thankful Good Thanksgiving Gratitude For Health Grateful Inspirational Gratitude For Work Thankfulness For Love Gratitude To Others Feeling Grateful Great Thanksgiving Candle Lights Appreciation Of Others Gratitude For Friends Love And Appreciation Friend Appreciation Day After Thanksgiving Deep Gratitude Thanking Friends Inspirational Thank You Being Appreciated Thankful For Friends

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”

Knows Wells Persons Enough Friendship Friends Acquaintance Borrowing Borrowed Money Borrowing Money

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

Life Persons Has Beens Friendship Food Eternal Eternity Swear Gravy Eternal Friendship

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

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

Persons Grows Friendship Silence Growing Rights Acceptance Friends Demand My Friends Social Justice Deny African American Novelists Memorable Real Friends Black History Empowering Women True Friendship My Friendship Your Best Friend About Friendship Love And Friendship Friendship Love Friendship Memories Lost Friendship Women Empowering Women One Line Friendship Best Friendship Friendship Day Cute Friendship Fake Friends Inspirational Friendship Friend Love Lost Friend Black Person Lasting Friendship Happy Friendship Inspiring Friends Happy Friendship Day Beautiful Friendship Hearts And Friends Black History Inspirational Who Your Real Friends Are Friendship Broken Who Your Friends Are Really Cute Best Friend Short Friend Black Women Inspirational Black Inspirational Awesome Friendship Black Motivational Bad Friend Heart Touching Friends Losing Friendship Short Best Friend Amazing Friendship Funny Best Friends Forever I Have No Friends Romantic Friendship

Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.”

Persons Two Friendship Nice Nice Person

Author:John Wooden

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”

Mean Persons Friendship Taken Friends Elements Comfortable Granted Compliment Trusted Taken For Granted Taking Things For Granted Took For Granted Things We Take For Granted Life For Granted Taking Life For Granted

Author:Joyce Brothers

“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”

Ifs Littles Persons Long Two Friendship Failing Friends Forgiveness Forgiving Friends Forever Lost Friendship Lost Friend Two Friends Friendship Broken Losing Friendship

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .”

People Way Persons Real Action Remember Friendship Loses Inspiring Worry One Day Sticks Treated Granted Fake Good Friend Real Friends

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”

Knows Wells Persons Friendship Laughing Laughter Cute Love

Author:Cassandra Clare

“...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.”

Ifs Want Firsts Persons Care Friendship Caring

Book:Blood Of The Fold

Source: Blood Of The Fold

“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

Ifs World Persons Friendship Brilliant Strongest One Line Friendship Friendship Day Happy Friendship Day

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”

“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”

“All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”

Persons Feelings Friendship Uplifting Friendly

Author:Aristotle

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

“My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.”

Years Persons Matter Faces Mother Hate Friendship Perfect Example I Hate Meetings Trials Hated Characteristics Dislike Good Friend Face To Face Jerry

Author:Larry Flynt

“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.”

“No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.”

Mean Persons Friendship Elements Cute Cute Friendship

Author:Francis Marion Crawford

“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right 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 then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.”

“Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your dreams are supported and safe in his airspace, as well as supporting him in the same way when he needs it.”

People Knows Way Needs Wells Persons Enough Dream Friendship Quality Safe Highest Opening Your Dreams Opening Up

Book:Get Off Your

Source: Get Off Your

“Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.”

Knows Needs Persons Shows Seems Friendship Kindness Receiving

Author:Colin Powell

“Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.”

Persons Book Friendship Boys Inspired Various Sat Grades Disguise My Best Friend Lively Aisle Sixth Grade Assorted

Author:Beverly Cleary