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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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Your friend is your needs answered.
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it
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