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“True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.”

“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

“Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.”

Book Age Friendship Wise Get Better Good Book

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.”

Men Friendship Wise Foolish Judged

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.”

“A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.”

Matter Friendship Wise No Matter What Sticks Thick True Friend Thick And Thin Through Thick And Thin

Author:Kayla Mueller

“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”

Friendship Prayer Attitude Wise Praying Positive Attitude Insightful Modifying New Attitude

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.”

Enough Asks Friendship Poor Business Rich Wise Dog Saint Silly Sinner Pals Rich Or Poor

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.”

Men Art Choices Friendship Wise Becoming Gains Election Thee Judged Virtuous Inferiors Being Wise

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”

People Men Mind Doe Friendship Quality Wise Capable Extremes Comparison Permit

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.”

Dies Friendship Silence Wise Comfort Weary Silence Is Pilgrimage Negligence

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”

Friendship Wise Oil Mechanism Etiquette Politeness Best Friend Refined Refining Making New Friends

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.”

Three Friendship Pleasure Study Wise Findings Enjoyment Idle Ceremony Discussing Feasting

Author:Confucius

“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.”