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A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love, and encourages you with hope.
Unknown
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Unknown
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Unknown
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
A friend is someone who gives you a new perspective on yourself.
Unknown
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.
Heidi Wills
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I'm lucky to have someone like that in my life.
Unknown
A friend is someone who gives you a shoulder to cry on when everyone else has already seen your smile.
Unknown
A friend is one who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Unknown
A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of your best self.
Steve Martin
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I'm lucky to have you as my friend.
Unknown
A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope.
Unknown
A friend is someone who understands your silence.
Unknown
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
John C. Maxwell
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph G. Nichols
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menniger
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
Alfred Brendel
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who listens, understands, and supports you even when you're not making sense.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who is honest with you, even when it hurts.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who never gets tired of listening to your pointless dramas over and over again.
Lauren Conrad
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