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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” That’s what Ralph Waldo Emerson said when asked about friendship. Below are 12 more quotes on what it means to be, and have, a friend.
- Learn to be a good friend because one day you’re gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don’t just start arguments with them and don’t tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don’t forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. ~~ Marilyn Monroe
- Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~~ Mark Twain
- The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ~~ Bob Marley
- You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ~~ A.A. Milne
- I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. ~~ Jon Katz
- Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. ~~ Muhammad Ali
- If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. ~~ S. E. Hinton
- Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble. ~~ Stieg Larsson
- Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ~~ Oscar Wilde
- You can go through life and make new friends every year – every month practically – but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel. ~~ Alexander McCall Smith
- 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 Butler
- Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ~~ Sarah Dessen
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