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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
Nicole Richie
The greatest thing in life is to have someone who understands your heart, and who can help you heal your brokenness.
Shannon L. Alder
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The strongest predictor of happiness is not money or external recognition, but close relationships and social support.
Tal Ben-Shahar
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection.
Johann Hari
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
Stephen Richards
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
Karl Marx
Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.
John Mark Green
The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not.
Anonymous
You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.
Joel Osteen
Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.
Anonymous
The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.
Carrie Bradshaw
You cannot change the people around you, but you can change the people you choose to be around.
Anonymous
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
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
Empathy is the glue that holds friendships together.
Unknown
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 only way to make a friend is to be one.
Unknown
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
Mort Walker
Laughter is the foundation of a friendship, the glue that holds it together.
Unknown
Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.
Jarod Kintz
Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda
Laughter is the evidence that we are still alive and connected.
Unknown
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon Sinek
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
Friends are like walls, sometimes you lean on them and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there.
Unknown
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Abraham Lincoln
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
The only thing that can heal the pain of the past is the sweet salve of forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.
Unknown
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
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