Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Meaningful friendship quotes
Quotes about why friendship matters.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
No human relation gives one possession in anotherevery two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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Deep quotes about love and loyalty
Lines about the deeper commitments inside friendship.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
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.
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Soulful friendship quotes
Quotes about friendship, soul, truth, and shared life.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
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Deep quotes for hard times
Quotes about friends who stay when life is difficult.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.