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Friends

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

- Alfred North Whitehead

If you treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. 
- Unknown

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the way.
- Unknown

A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
- Unknown

True friends stab you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
- Maxwell Maltz

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
- C.S. Lewis

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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.
- Unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Unknown

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell