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

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

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

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

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

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

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

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

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

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

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

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”