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The
best preparedness is the one that disarms the
hostility of other nations and makes friends of
them.
-- Helen Keller
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"However
rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"A
true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and
that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
Friendship
arises out of mere Companionship when two or more
of the companions discover that they have in common
some insight or interest or even taste which the others
do not share and which, till that moment, each believed
to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical
expression of opening Friendship would be something
like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
. . . . It is when two such person discover one another,
when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate
fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and
elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is
then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand
together in an immense solitude.
-- C.S. Lewis
"I
shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"If
you want to make peace with your enemy, you have
to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your
partner.
-- Nelson Mandela
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"A
true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer.
"You
can make more friends in two months by becoming really
interested in other people, than you can in two years
by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer
A
real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the
world walks out. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-- Mencius
"Hold
a true friend with both your hands."
-- Nigerian proverb
I
cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single
one of my friends because no one is complete enough
in himself.
-- Anais Nin
"Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly
not born until they arrive, and it is only by this
meeting that a new world is born."
-- Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
The
friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair
or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief
and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not
curing, not healing and face with us the reality of
our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
-- Henri Nouwen
"Love
is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer
than love."
-- Charles Peguy
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"There
can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
-- William Penn
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Friendship is the union of spirits...
-- William
Penn
Friendship
is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts,
and the bond thereof virtue
-- William
Penn
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