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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi |
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
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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? -- Henry David Thoreau |
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. 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 |
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -- Georgia Washington |
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If your friends tell you to smoke, if they tell you to drink some vodka and your 16, if they tell you to tell off your parents, if they tell you to dress like them, act like them, talk like them…are they really your friends? -- Unknown |
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