Friend Quotes
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:
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... it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something new?" "Like bistros?" She nudged him playfully with her elbow. "No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can't find in a small town." "I don't doubt it. But to be honest, I've never been interested in things like that. I don't need those things to make me happy. A nice quiet place to unwind at the end of the day, beautiful views, a few good friends. What else is there?
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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“A good friend is someone you can count on. No matter what.”
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?
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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.
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Diantha came so close to saying she would do whatever Patricia wanted, anything at all. And then it hit her: She was being Trickstered. She’d been this close to becoming a slave to her former best friend. Diantha backed away, almost tipping over a teak side table full of drinks.
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Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
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Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.
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Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'
