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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
True friends don't say goodbye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.
Unknown
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you when you need it most.
John C. Maxwell
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Cicero
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge it and look at it's source. Rather than trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The most beautiful thing about friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with yourself.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on. And that's what friendship is all about. Facing your fears.
Sarah Dessen
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Empathy is the glue that holds friendships together.
Jane Green
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
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