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Friends are those rare people who ask you how you are then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” CS Lewis
“Someone has said that it is possible ‘to listen a person’s soul into existence.’ I like that.” -Catherine de Hueck Doherty
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
A true friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – Jewish proverb
The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it – John Peter
His thoughts were slow,
His words were few, and never formed to glisten.
But he was a joy to all his friends-
You should have heard him listen.
-Quoted by Wayne Mackey in Oklahoma City Times-
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. – David Tyson
Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them than upon what they make us see in ourselves.
“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.” Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Live Ullmann, on relationships:
Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other – not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn’t be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It’s so much easier to be together when we drop our masks. – Merv Griffin with Peter Barsocchini, From Where I Sit (Arbor House)
Friendships are often forged in the crucible of mutual adversity.
There are two ways to make friends: One is to do something for people; the other is to let people do something for you.
A friend doesn’t ask
Can I hope with your load?
But has already carried it
Far up the road.
– Mary Dawson Hughes-
Friends are relatives you make for yourself – Eustache Deschamps
It takes a long time to grown an old friend – John Leonard in Friends and Friends of Friends by Bernard Pierre Wolff (Dutton)
One does not make friends. One recognizes them. – Garth Henrichs in Sunshine Magazine
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
Enemies are not those who hate us, but rather those we hate.
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From the Sea
One study of life satisfaction documented that friendship ranked third in importance as the most significant source of happiness. First Comes Love – Brinley/Ogletree – pg 51.
A good gauge to determine what kind of spouse you will be is to examine how well you treat your friends; for the way you treat your friends now is more than likely how you will treat your spouse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Elder Robert D. Hales taught the importance of friendship this way:
Do you know how to recognize a true friend? A real friend loves us and protects us. In recognizing a true friend we must look for two important elements in that friendship: A true friend makes it easier for us to live the gospel by being around him. Similarly, a true friend does not make us choose between his way and the Lord’s way (“The Aaronic Priesthood: Return with Honor,” Ensign, May 1990, 40)
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