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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

— Anais Nin
Friendship

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

— Shel Silverstein
Life Love Friendship

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

— A. A. Milne
Friendship

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

— Aristotle
Faith & Religion Friendship

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

— Jon Katz
Love Faith & Religion Friendship

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

— A.A. Milne
Inspirational Friendship

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

— Rumi
Love Faith & Religion Friendship Society & Politics

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

— Jane Austen
Humor Friendship

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever

— Dave Matthews Band
Love Friendship Relationships

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

— E.B. White
Friendship

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

— Helen Keller
Friendship

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

— Sarah Dessen
Friendship

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Friendship Family

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

— Nicholas Sparks
Friendship

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

— Nicholas Sparks
Love Friendship

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.