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Quotes about Friendship

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson : Scottish novelist, essayist & poet
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Source: Pearls of Wisdom
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A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: Internet
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Hafiz
 
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
by Saint Philo of Alexandria

Philo Alexandria
Source: Daily Lives, Miracles, and Wisdom of the Saints.
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When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception.  This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.  Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception.  But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him.  For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

Saint Diadochos of Photiki
Source: Daily Lives, Miracles, and Wisdom of the Saints.
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People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

Wayne Dyer : Gaia Explorer
Wayne Dyer
Source: The Power of Intention
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada By Friedrich Max Müller, Viggo Fausbøll, P.23, v.78
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Maybe people share their secret selves with me because they sense it won't make me feel uncomfortable.  Quite the contrary.  I always feel like I've experienced a miracle when it happens.  I guess, because to me, to reveal one's true self, one's spirit self, is to reveal God.

Kaya McLaren
Source: Church of the Dog, Page: 157
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Let your best be for your friend.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 50 (On Friendship)
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For this I bless you most.  You give much and know not that you give at all.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
 
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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To walk the earth in friendship is to embrace the highest human potential. Friendship bathes us with warmth and life while inspiring our soul to blossom.

oldman : Poet , Psychic and CyberShaman
Micheal
Source: Micheal Teal - Poet , Philosopher and Shaman
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Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

Bokar Rinpoche
 
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Ours is a sacred imagination created from blessings above which if used in the spirit of love will guide us to walk the earth in friendship all our days.

Micheal Teal
Source: Micheal Teal - Poet , Philosopher and Shaman
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'Stay connected to your source,every fortunacy radiates out of a source'...Emissary.

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: My mental library
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eleanor_Roosevelt
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You'll never be lonely if you learn to befriend yourself.

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Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.  It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.  It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. 

Michael Strassfeld
 
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Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Holy Spirit
Source: The Holy Bible: New International Version, Page: John 15:13
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A true friend is someone who will listen to you, laugh with you, and do the right thing for you even if you don't agree with it.

unknown : Gaia Child
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Being lonely is more friendly with two.

Winnie the Pooh
 
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Is there some meaning to this life?
What purpose lies behind the strife?
Whence do we come, where are we bound?
These cold questions echo and resound
through each day, each lonely night.
We long to find the splendid light
that will cast a revelatory beam
upon the meaning of the human dream.


Courage, love, friendship,
compassion, and empathy
lift us above the simple beasts
and define humanity.

Dean Koontz
Source: Book Of Counted Sorrows
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own

Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
 
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When you can't run you crawl, and when you can't crawl you find someone to carry you..

Firefly TV Show
Source: Firefly
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 " Having one good friend is worth more than being popular amongst many ."

Carolynn Warner
 
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"The joy of friendship can calm the storm within the soul and leave a rainbow to show the promise of healing and hope. "

Lynn : nature lover
Lynnann
Source: Myself
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The only people you need in your life are those who need you in theirs.

unknown : Gaia Child
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"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you're not."

Van Zant
 
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Ones inescapable desire to accept another's differences as...

          Distinction


The fearless comfort in all that I do not know as...
          Trust

The admiration of one's life journey as...

          Respect


You excite me to transparency through...

          The beauty of truth

You humble me to wisdom through...
          The fortitude of understanding


Loving who you are in this moment through...

          The exoneration of your past


This is no coincidence...
           This familiarity defines true friendship...timeless...a decade later.


-- Kandra J Gardner

Kandra J Gardner
 
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)
 
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