“Bruce Lee once asserted that the desire to get rid of the disease is one of the greatest diseases of the mind. A true friend will listen without judgment. Such a friend will hear you out completely without any desire or attempt to change you.”
- Freedom Malhotra
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
- Eustace Budgell
“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”
- Emily Dickinson
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
- William Arthur Ward
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
- Aristotle
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
- Buddha
“The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in 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 sheltering tree.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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