"To know someone here or there with whom you can
feel there is understanding in spite of distances
or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden."
-Goethe

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
-Confucious

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-unknown

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a
benevolent arrangement of things, the greater
part of life is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't
walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside
me and be my friend."
-unknown

"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of
friendship."
-Spanish Proverb

"Friends are born, not made."
-Henry Adams

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of
nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a
great life."
-Lee Iacocca

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into
flame by another human being. Each of us owes
deepest thanks to those who have
rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when
someone acknowledges who we are and what
we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential."
-Rusty Berkus

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make
friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln

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


"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
-Gravestone from the 1800s


"I do not want a friend
Who smiles when I smile
Who weeps when I weep
For my shadow in the pool
Can do better than that."
-Confucious


"A friend is someone who knows the song in your
heart and can sing it back to you when you have
forgotten the words."
-unknown


"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our
hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
-Unknown

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson



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Friendship Quotes From Songs
"Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers
and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then
you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you."
- Liz Phair

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
- Stone Temple Pilots

"Mother my friends are no longer my friends
And the games we once played have no meaning
I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why
So they've left me to my own daydreaming."
- Suzanne Vega

"And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed,
then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend."
- Tom Petty