Loyal Friendship Quotes

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Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
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Tim Fargo
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The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
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Stephen Richards
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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Euripides
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His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
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Stephen Richards
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Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.
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Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
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Sometimes I think you believe in me more than I do," said the boy "You'll catch up," said the horse.
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Charlie Mackesy (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse)
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I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress. I’m cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.
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Coco J. Ginger
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We are all in this together. We need each other. Oh, how we need each other. Those of us who are old need you who are young, and hopefully, you who are young need some of us who are old...We need deep and satisfying and loyal friendships with each other. These friendships are a necessary source of sustenance. We need to renew our faith every day. We need to lock arms and help build the kingdom so that it will roll forth and fill the whole earth.
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Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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Mark Twain
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You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
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Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
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When you're alone is when you can count your friends.
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Stephen Richards
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their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.
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Stieg Larsson (The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2))
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True friendship never questions what it costs you.
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Stephen Richards
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What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better," said Locke.
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Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1))
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As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
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E.A. Bucchianeri (Brushstrokes of a Gadfly (Gadfly Saga, #1))
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Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
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Timothy J. Keller (The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God)
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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
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Walt Whitman (Drum Taps)
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If you want to build lifelong, loyal friendships, if you want to build trust, learn to protect your family members and friends even when they make mistakes.
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Joel Osteen (Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day)
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When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.
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Stephen Richards
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The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.
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Richelle Mead (Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5))
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It's better being lonely than having friends that secretly hate you.
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Nina Ardianti (Glam Girls)
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You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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Real friends, are really hard to come by.
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Anthony Liccione
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I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honorβ€”I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Anne Carson (Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides)
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A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy' Albert Einstein
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Victoria Ward (The Unconventional Life of Jenna Jaghe)
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Do unto others what you want them to do to you. Don’t deceive if you don’t want to be deceived. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. Relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Shaping the dream)
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This is the oath of a Knight of King Arthur's Round Table and should be for all of us to take to heart. I will develop my life for the greater good. I will place character above riches, and concern for others above personal wealth, I will never boast, but cherish humility instead, I will speak the truth at all times, and forever keep my word, I will defend those who cannot defend themselves, I will honor and respect women, and refute sexism in all its guises, I will uphold justice by being fair to all, I will be faithful in love and loyal in friendship, I will abhor scandals and gossip-neither partake nor delight in them, I will be generous to the poor and to those who need help, I will forgive when asked, that my own mistakes will be forgiven, I will live my life with courtesy and honor from this day forward.
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Joseph D. Jacques (Chivalry-Now: The Code of Male Ethics)
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Some people treat loyalty as a lamp: they think, they can just switch it on/off and believe, you won't notice the difference...
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Veronika Jensen
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Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.
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Germany Kent
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I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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Life's a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who'd die for us.
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Crystal Woods (Write like no one is reading 3)
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man
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Rudyard Kipling
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I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.
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Shannon A. Thompson (Take Me Tomorrow)
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I agree with you,” Marron said quietly. β€œFor what it’s worth.” Perry nodded in thanks. It was worth a lot just then.
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Veronica Rossi (Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2))
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I don't have best friends. I have soul sisters.
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Airicka Phoenix
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A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Only a true friend would try to get someone she cared about to become princess over herself.
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Kiera Cass (The Favorite (The Selection, #2.6))
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...a friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.
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Steven J. Carroll (City of Words)
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True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Fallowblade (The Crowthistle Chronicles, #4))
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When life deals you a rough hand, it’s not about how strong you are but how many people out there believe in you, stand by you: your FRIENDS.
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Aman Jassal (Rainbow - the shades of love)
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Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do." "Can I keep her?" "For the love of...No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged.
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Julie Garwood (The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1))
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I need you to just trust me for now without knowing all the answers.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.
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Ellen J. Barrier
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The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, β€˜Are you are ok?’ and your best friend asks, β€˜Do you want to talk about it?
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Savania China
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A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.
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Alessandro Manzoni
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We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much in common with her as I did. I’d been raised mostly in a completely different country, yet we were so similar.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Dean Koontz (Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5))
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I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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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.
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Charles Alexander Eastman
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The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it. Choose wisely. The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.
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Carlos Wallace (Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings)
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Quinn hesitated, then said what his heart demanded."Lizzy, even if you don't believe, I will still be your friend. Nothing is going to change that. I'm loyal to my friends for a lifetime. There are no qualifications." She just looked at him for a long time, and then the smile that could make his heart roll over appeared. She got to her feet and lightly tapped his arm with the sombrero. "You're forgiven for asking me out fourth." She would have passed him but he snagged her hand. "Lizzy." She stopped. "I saved the best for last.
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Dee Henderson (The Truth Seeker (O'Malley, #3))
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To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.
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Criss Jami (Healology)
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Partially trust your friends. Moderately trust your family. Seldomly trust your acquaintances. Never trust your enemies. Jealous friends betray you quickly. Envious friends will betray instantly. Loyal acquaintances will help you swiftly. Noble acquaintances will help you immediately.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library
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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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But nothing delights the mind so much as fond and loyal friendship. What a blessing it is to have hearts that are ready and willing to receive all your secretes in safety, with whom you are less afraid to share knowledge of something than keep it to yourself, whose conversation soothes your distress, whose advice helps you make up your mind, whose cheerfulness dissolves your sorrow, whose very appearance cheers you up!
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Seneca (On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas))
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Never feel bad about cutting someone out of your lifeβ€”sometimes that's the only option. When you hang out with people who are true friends, you come away feeling lighter, more inspired to work hard, give love, and take care of yourself.
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Naya Rivera (Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up)
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Often when it comes to friends. When the rubber hits the road you'll find yourself hitch hiking
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Stanley Victor Paskavich (Return to Stantasyland)
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If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime,anywhere
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Rahul Bodkhe
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A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.
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Anthony Liccione
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Show me your friends I will tell you your future
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Aniq Ur Rahman
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Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Complete Poetical Works)
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As a woman, a true loyal friendship is important. Truth be told, it takes patience and a lot of work. You will have some friendships that will be underestimated and tested. Most definitely, there will be some friendships that will come and go. However, there will be friendships and sisterhoods that will last a lifetime. A true sister will walk through the fire with you; and after she walks through the fire, she will stand against the rough currents with you. Nobody is perfect. True sisterhood is a gift that absolutely holds your love together.
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Charlena E. Jackson (A Woman's Love Is Never Good Enough)
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Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... is move on.
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Hilda Yacoubian
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Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Man in the Iron Mask)
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When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that won’t quite fade away, you’re not only aware of how lonely you are, but how much you've been lying to yourself.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.
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Lauren Bjorkman
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A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation,time or location.
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Ellen J. Barrier (How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed)
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The only thing old about you is our friendship, which makes us ancient...
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Nanette L. Avery
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Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.
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Micheal Rivers (Moonlight on the Nantahala)
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Surround yourself with all those that are the same frequency as you.
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Mimi Novic (The Silence Between the Sighs)
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Give them time to think things over.
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AceQwetyu
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Usiwapoteze marafiki zako wa mwanzo kwa sababu ya ujinga wako, wala usiwaache marafiki zako wa mwanzo kwa sababu ya ujinga wao.
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Enock Maregesi
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Odd that you could be so angry at someone and devoted to him at the same time.
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Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3))
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Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.
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Shivam Singh
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Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.
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Shivam Singh
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A friend is someone who accepts you for who you are not what you are. They are with you through the good and the bad, the thick and the thin and doesn't try to change you but will tell you when you are in error. If you believe in your friend you will accept their opinion as an optimistic way to improve yourself. No one can tell you who to choose as a friend as you must choose who you are willing to accept failure from because even a friend can let you down but it is up to you to choose who you will allow to let you down
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Marlan Rico Lee
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But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me; whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans. How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
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Last Resort friends are for getting from, not giving to.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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Three things in life you will never have to chase: True friends, true love and your destiny!
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Alex Haditaghi (Softly, As I Leave Her)
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Always cherish your true friends who were there when no one else was.
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Heather Wolf
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Persahabatan itu bukan untuk menyelamatkan diri sendiri, melainkan rela mengangkat pedang untuk sahabat yang sangat dekat." - Lady Park to Kim Jae Woon, The Moon That Embraces The Sun
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Jung Eun-gwol
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Well, everyone has a friend who holds a very special place in his life. Talking about men…a friend whom you love unconditionally and selflessly.....a friend who knows every secret of your life and who is always the first person whom you want to call when you are in some mess…a friend who tells you exactly what you want to hear. Ena was such a friend to me. My best friend – if that defines the zenith of good friendship. I would rather say, there is no definition of friendship that we shared with each other, the more I explain it, the more complicated it becomes to recite the aspects of our relationship. She was that closer a friend to me, who knew all the nitty-gritties of my life…from every girl who ever came into my life, to passwords of my email accounts or public profiles. Absolutely everything! She was the only girl on earth I trusted blindly and cared for, truly and unconditionally. She was the only girl who could actually make me dance to her beats. We shared that deeper relationship with each other.
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Shivam Singh (Best Friends)
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She was afraid that it was a moral issue, and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever.
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Stieg Larsson (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3))
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Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you.
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L.M. Montgomery (Emily Climbs (Emily, #2))
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For what its worth, you're good for him," he said. Healther looked up at him, surprised. Von's green gaze held hers. "Family," he said. "It all comes down to who has your back when your tires are running down a strange road & who'll stop to help you patch a flat when that road turns nasty. Family". p. 254
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Adrian Phoenix (In the Blood (The Maker's Song, #2))
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I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every kind, besides which I was awkward, geeky, and shy. So I ate alone, telling myself that it was fine while I watched other people have normal conversations with their friends.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all eternity, under the grime of centuries, beyond time. When even the paint falls off and these prison-canvases are bare again… well, then we are in limbo,” the poor man opened his eyes wide giving them a ghostly look.
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Nathalie M. Leblanc
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First, friends who are attached have a desire to see a lot of each other and know what’s going on in each other’s lives. Second, the friends provide a secure base for each otherβ€”meaning the friendship allows them to go out and explore other friendships, romantic relationships, new jobs, anything that might feel scary but ultimately positive, because they can look over their shoulder and know their friend is there for them. And third, they offer each other a safe harbor. When things go wrong for one friend, the other loyally and dependably steps up to offer support.
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Aminatou Sow (Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close)
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Not all who demand your attention desire your happiness, many merely seeking a conveyance to their own. It is entirely easy when wrapped up with the petty to miss what is possible and what rows your ship to worthwhile dreams. But when two or more fall together to share the oars of what might be, dreams may find them in equal measure and as fast as the wake made.
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Tom Althouse
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Life is precious; good friends are not numerous, but their actions are significant. Cherish them. Feel grateful for them. Show them that you appreciate them. And do all this as often as possible. Be grateful for the bad ones too, as they helped you see the good ones for who they were. I am grateful for any friend that has come into my life and proved to be in the bad category, because it helped me to recognize and appreciate the good ones.
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Nico J. Genes (ADHD: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL)
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You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You've led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.
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Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook (The Notebook, #1))
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My dear Gorgas, Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, Reed Dr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics.
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William Crawford Gorgas (Sanitation in Panama (Classic Reprint))
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[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother] The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower. Dear Friends: I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling toward the west. He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point; but, being weary for a moment, he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust. Yet, after all, it may be best, just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar above a sunken ship. For whether in mid sea or 'mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death. This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights, and left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the golden dawning, of the grander day. He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form, and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, the poor, and wronged, and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart and with the purest hands he faithfully discharged all public trusts. He was a worshipper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer!' He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers. Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, 'I am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead. And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust. Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no gentler, stronger, manlier man.
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Robert G. Ingersoll (Some Mistakes of Moses)