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"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
"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."
"That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours."
"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
"You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest."
"The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship."
"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together."
"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
"Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation."
"If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way."
"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
"Your friend is your needs answered."
"I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry."
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
