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Quotes about Friendship

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.
— John Ortberg
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
— GK Chesterton
Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man, husband, father, or friend, simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is.
— Glenn Beck
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
— Gordon Hinckley
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.
— Gordon Hinckley
It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it's important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.
— Gordon Hinckley
Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.
— Gordon Hinckley
I had to have company — I was made for it, I think — so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose. I think they are perfect gentlemen.
— Mark Twain
And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.
— Mark Twain
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson