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1 " Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. "
― Mandy Hale
2 " Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times. "
― Mensah Oteh
3 " Stop changing yourself for the sake of other people. You shouldn't care what strangers think and true friends won't ask you to change. "
4 " He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. "
― William Hazlitt , Selected Essays, 1778-1830
5 " Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul. "
― Shannon L. Alder
6 " Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." " Choose a friend," I said." Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded." Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." " I like him a lot, abba." " No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend. "
7 " Only when you are in trouble do you realize who your true friends are… And, my dear, you will be surprised! "
― Charbel Tadros
8 " Fake friends are better than true friends because it doesn't hurt when they leave. "
9 " You show true friends the ugly--and trust them enough to turn it into something beautiful. "
― Rachel Van Dyken , The Playboy Bachelor (The Bachelors of Arizona, #2)
10 " Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you. "
― Toni Sorenson
11 " If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. "
― Jay Woodman
12 " Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul "
― Chaim Potok
13 " There’s a reason we’ll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives. "
14 " I really feel sorry for the many men who are surrounded by people who flatter them all the time. In Chinese we have a golden proverb: " The true friend is the one who shows you how to bow down. Because you cannot enter the cave of treasures without bowing at the opening. And the true enemy is the one who flatters you. Because you cannot enter the cave of treasures standing tall with pride." At the end of the day, it is those that flatter you who keep you away from the true treasures in your life. In the culture we all live in today, we are taught to surround ourselves by people " who believe in us" . That is true to some extent. But in reality, there are many times when the people around us ought to slap us in the face because we are being idiots. This seems to be particularly prevalent amongst men. In their quest to build a kingdom, they surround themselves with peasants. But this is not how to build a kingdom. In order to build a kingdom, surround yourself with knights. True friends who will protect you, even if it means protecting you from your own wayward self. "
15 " Never apologize for the good in your life. People who try to make you feel badly because you have been blessed are consumed by self-loathing. Wear your accomplishments proudly, be it your career, your relationship, your children, your success. True friends will bask in the glow of your shine, not pray for darkness to fall. "
― Carlos Wallace , Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
16 " It wasn't only my friends who suffered from female rivalry. I remember when I was just sixteen years old, during spring vacation, being whisked off to an early lunch by my best friend's brother, only to discover, to my astonishment and hurt, that she was expecting some college boys to drop by and didn't want me there to compete with her. When I started college at Sarah Lawrence, I soon noticed that while some of my classmates were indeed true friends, others seemed to resent that I had a boyfriend. It didn't help that Sarah Lawrence, a former girls' school, included very few straight men among its student body--an early lesson in how competing for items in short supply often brings out the worst in women. In graduate school, the stakes got higher, and the competition got stiffer, a trend that continued when I went on to vie for a limited number of academic jobs. I always had friends and colleagues with whom I could have trusted my life--but I also found women who seemed to view not only me but all other female academics as their rivals. This sense of rivalry became more painful when I divorced my first husband. Many of my friends I depended on for comfort and support suddenly began to view me as a threat. Some took me out to lunch to get the dirt, then dropped me soon after. I think they found it disturbing that I left my unhappy marriage while they were still committed to theirs. For other women, the threat seemed more immediate--twice I was told in no uncertain terms that I had better stay away from someone's husband, despite my protests that I would no more go after a friend's husband than I would stay friends with a woman who went after mine. Thankfully, I also had some true friends who remained loyal and supportive during one of the most difficult times of my life. To this day I trust them implicitly, with the kind of faith you reserve for people who have proved themselves under fire. But I've also never forgotten the shock and disappointment of discovering how quickly those other friendships turned to rivalries. "
― Susan Shapiro Barash , Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth about Women and Rivalry
17 " In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. "
― Aristotle
18 " You know that you're a true friend when somebody says " But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is " What wart?" . You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all. "
19 " A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part. "
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20 " With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. "