One of the reason why some friendships last is because we accept our friends for who they are without wanting, or trying to change them. No one is perfect. If we wait for the perfect person to come along before we call him/her ‘friend’, we will be friendless. Understand your friends for who they are and accept them for who they are. This is what being a friend means.
Friendship plays a key role to emotional growth and mental health. It boosts your happiness. Talking to a friend lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of depression. Hugging, listening, sharing, connecting and celebrating life with friends deceases stress. That’s what friends are for: they help you live longer. - Unknown
By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable. - Jeremy Taylor
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is no one-sided affair, but an exchange of soul qualities. There can be no friendship without reciprocity. One cannot receive all and give nothing or give all and receive nothing, and expect to experience the joy of fullness of companionship. - Unknown
The delight of honest friendship is that it can be resumed instantly regardless of the length of time it has been in abeyance; there are no preliminaries or formalities to observe, no protocol to be established. - Unknown
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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