Finding True Friendship

Do you have found a true friend?

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Almost everyone has a friend uncontrollably in this short life, although there is only one true friend. Beyond that, we certainly have good friends, close friends, co-workers, business associates and new people we know. Friendship is beautiful. With friends we can share stories and life experiences, help each other in times one needs help.

Friendship is not impeded by national boundaries, religion, politics, ethnic and nationality. We can be friends with anyone, even if the person is living in a remote corner of the earth. Do you have a best friend who lives abroad?

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

 “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”   Elbert Hubbard

 "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” Linda Grayson

 A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall

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

 "It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."  Duc de la Rochefoucauld.

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 “Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.”  Epicurus (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270).

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”  Martin Luther King.

 “We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”  A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”  Karl Menninger

 "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." Euripides, Greek plays write.

 "Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." -Oscar Wilde

There are So many beautiful words about friendship, so many true stories about the beauty of friendship. Whatever your perception of the importance of whether or not a friend, we cannot live alone. You need a friend to give criticism, admiration, love and other magical stories. We cannot claim to be a sincere friend to us. We should be sincere first before getting the sincerity of a true friend.