Friendship Quotes — Page 27

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

Friendship Relationship Best Friend

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Helen Keller

Author, Activist

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”

Taken Death Friendship

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Pythagoras

Philosopher, Mathematician

“Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.”

Writing Teaching

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Philosopher, Educator

“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”

World Friendship

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

“You Too? I thought I was the only one.”

Friendship Real Friends Funny Best Friend

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Edith Wharton

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

Self Friendship Best Friend

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Tony Robbins

Author, Life Coach

“Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.”

Life Team Friendship

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Sydney Smith

Writer

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”

Love Happiness Friendship

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Katharine Hepburn

Actress

“Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.”

People Hands Friendship

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.”

Book Friendship

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Judith Martin

Poet

“Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.”

Believe Mean Friendship

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

“universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Animal Friendship Compassion

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