Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye.
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
