Friendship Quotes

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“Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.”
– Jane Austen

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
– George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
– Katherine Mansfield

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own. ”
– Charlotte Brontë

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

“Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elizabeth Foley

“There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be!”
– Irish Proverb

“There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.”
– Edwin Markham

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
– Paul Aubuchon

“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.”
– Margaret Guenther

“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”
– Golda Meir

“When being together is more important than what you do, you are with a friend.”
– Connie McMartin

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ”
– Japanese Proverb

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
– Henri Nouwen

“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.”
– Henry Drummond

“You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.”
– Fred Rogers

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