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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Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart."
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"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
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"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
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"Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
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"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
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"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
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"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
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"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...that is a friend who cares."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
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"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."
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"True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection."
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
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"True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord."
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"The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best."
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"There are no true friends in politics."
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"A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again."
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