"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
Khalil Gibran
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
Ulysses S. Grant
"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."
Octavia E. Butler
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
William Hazlitt
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
Toni Morrison

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
Samuel Johnson"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
Oliver Goldsmith"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
Cornelia Otis Skinner
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
Elie Wiesel"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Charles Caleb Colton


"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
Mortimer Adler"I realized it's important to have love in your life, it's important to have friendship, it's very important to have mentors and family."
Sergei Polunin"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."
John Wooden
"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning."
Jane Harrison"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me."
Joel Edgerton"Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious."
Jonathan Edwards
"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."
Charles R. Swindoll"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."
Baltasar Gracian
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
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