Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.Richard Bach
True Friendship
Aristotle called a friend a single soul in two bodies; Emerson said the only way to have one is to be one. This collection gathers the collection's friendship quotes — on loyalty, on the friends who tell you the truth, and on why the bond outlasts almost everything else.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Confucius
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.Epictetus
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.Rumi
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.William Shakespeare
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.Lao Tzu
Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference, and no matter the issue.Byron Pulsifer
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.Dalai Lama
Your friend is your needs answered.Kahlil Gibran
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.Abraham Lincoln
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.Rabindranath Tagore
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.Seneca
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.Aristotle
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.Tony Robbins
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.Maya Angelou
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.Helen Keller
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
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.Oprah Winfrey
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.Albert Schweitzer
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.Desmond Tutu
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.Emily Dickinson
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.Rudyard Kipling
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.Hafiz
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.George Washington
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