Friends and friendship

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"

"Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to."

"Show me someone who cannot tell his friends from his enemies, and I'll show you somebody who's going to end up with no friends."

"Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character, not the other way around."

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

"Friendship is the only thing in this world, the usefulness of which all mankind are in agreement."

"Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."


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