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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 Gracián1601–1658
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 8.
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe1853–1937
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CIII
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
- Love
No human relation gives one possession in another…every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
- Love
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
AGAmanda Grier
My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- Enemies
- Forgiveness