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Friendship Quotes
"Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow."
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"In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder."
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"We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside."
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"Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."
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"He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction."
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"A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication."
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"None of us are perfect, so a true friend will never look for defects in you as a person, it won't even cross their mind. Your happiness will be their main concern."
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"The Purpose of Friendship to Me is Having One to Complement Not One to Compete with!"
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"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
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"I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered."
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"I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend."
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"Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now."
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"Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect."
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"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
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"An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, -"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
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"Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to."
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"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends."
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"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
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"Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me""You mean he makes you more you, don't you?""I guess you could put it that way."
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"You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend."
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"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
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"Books make the best ersatz friendships."
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"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
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"I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it can be tender and involve a desire to hug or whatever. But it certainly doesn't mean you want to take off your clothes with that person. But certain friendships can be erotic. Oh, I think friendship is very erotic, but it isn't necessarily sexual. I think all my relationships are erotic: I can't imagine being fond of somebody I don't want to touch or hug, so therefore there's always an erotic aspect to some extent."
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"Sometimes you just have to hold each other's hands and walk through it all."
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"It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow."
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"I'd love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I'm ranked, which is below him."
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"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
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"It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking."
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"When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them."
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"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."
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"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us."
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"Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room."
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"Terrell is weeping soundlessly, and despite the guard's objection, he raises his hand up to the glass. Geraldine mimics him, lining her fingers up with his. It's lonely to think that one little sheet of glass could create such a thick distance between them, but all the same, regardless of what he's done, he's still one of the closest friends she has."
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"Hey, he's awesome. A little unstable, but awesome. We got along great." Adrian opened the door to the building we were seeking. "And he's a badass in his way too. I mean, any other guy who wore scarves like that? He'd be laughed out of this school. Not Abe. He'd beat someone almost as badly as you would. In fact..." Adrian's voice turned nervous. I gave him a surprised look."In fact what?""Well...Abe said he liked me. But he also made it clear what he'd do to me if I ever hurt you or did anything bad." Adrian grimaced. "In fact, he described what he'd do in very graphic detail. Then, just like that, he switched to some random, happy topic. I like the guy, but he's scary."
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"Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'."
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"You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you."
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"I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone."
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"Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once...."
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"Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day."
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"There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying "I'm here.It was a beautiful night."
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"More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend."
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