Cornerstones

Various, Contributors

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anaïs Nin

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Unknown

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln

It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
Fred Rogers

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Proverbs 27:9 (KJV)

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 (KJV)

The glory of friendship is … the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
MARIA SHRIVER

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin

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