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This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?
Oct 1, 2025
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
The best mirror is an old friend.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.