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“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 not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it”
Sylvia Bremer
“We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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 friend.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only a life lived for others is worth living”
Albert Einstein
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Antonio Porchia
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
Oscar Wilde
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
Mark Twain
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft