Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
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Friendship
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Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
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"It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none."
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
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"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
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"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones"
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."
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"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers."
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"Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes"
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"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
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"Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get."
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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
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"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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"Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation."
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"I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold."
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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something."
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
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