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

“Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.”

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“Jem’s eyes had widened, and then he’d laughed, a soft laugh. “Did you think I did not know you had a secret?” he’d said. “Did you think I walked into my friendship with you with my eyes shut? I did not know the nature of the burden you carried. But I knew there was a burden.” He’d stood up. “I knew you thought yourself poison to all those around you,” he’d added. “I knew you thought there to be some corruptive force about you that would break me. I meant to show you that I would not break, that love was not so fragile. Did I do that?”

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

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“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?”

“You Too? I thought I was the only one.”

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

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.”

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.”

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.”

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

“The best mirror is an old friend.”

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”