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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Care is the ingredient that keeps true friendships alive despite separation, distance, or time. Care gives latitude to another person and gets you past the dislikes and annoyances. Quite simply, caring sustains love. Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program Are there certain friends you turn to when you have a problem or need to be listened to? Think about this: - Are they compassionate, understanding and nurturing? - Are they totally present, giving you their undivided attention? - Do they try to solve your problems for you or do they help you to get clarity so that you can solve your own problems? - Do they let you talk until you're done? Chances are the people you turn to for support and understanding are good listeners. You can develop these qualities as well and take them even deeper into "essence understanding" through mastering deep heart listening. James Allen In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Frances Ward Weller -Sara Paddison.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.