What is a friend?

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies?.. The following are Quotes by my favorite authors & thoughts that I have complied. I was inspired to write this at the boom of Mypace frenzy. The following are of the kind of friends:

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

The following are of the kind of friends:

One who has played with you in the dust, i.e. in childhood
One who is bound by an obligation
One who is of the same disposition and fond of the same things
One who is a fellow student
One who is acquainted with your secrets and faults, and whose faults and secrets are also known to you
One who is a child of your nurse
One who is brought up with you one who is an hereditary friend

These friends should possess the following qualities:
They should tell the truth
They should not be changed by time
They should be firm
They should be free from covetousness
They should not be capable of being gained over by others
They should not reveal your secrets or compare you to another!


Robert Louis Stevenson:
A friend is a present you give yourself.

Arabian proverb:
A friend is known when needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Unknown Author: Friendship Quotes
A friendship is one soul living in two bodies.

Unknown author:
A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.

Images limit Ecstasy Diversity is essential to the beauty and interest of nature and the universe. Without it everything would be blank and monotonous.
COMPARE is to measure settings of performance levels & rightful superiority between your self & others as a personal worth or that of a human being.

ROMANCE is your desire to feel desire for change from a limited existence to recognizing & experience your unlimited potential. Romance is sharing of devoted & adventurous Love of Life with your mate. Love is caring friendship, affection & intimacy, SOUL-DEEP CLOSENESS. Union of emotion is a gift of experience given unto the soul(Emotions).

FRIEND
Japanese proverb:
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Dr. Suess:
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
John Lancaster Spalding: The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
W. Somerset Maugham: When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Wayne Dyer: When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Buddha: Quotes
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

Titus Muccius Plautus: Where there are friends, there is wealth.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Art Buchwald:
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Dale Carnegie:
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Pascal: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

John Quincy Adams: Friends Quote
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
Saint Jerome: The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Vincent Lombardi:
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Allan K. Chalmers:
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Benjamin Disraeli:
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Albert Camus:
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Anais Nin:
Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born.

William Shakespeare:
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Quotation To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
Plutarch: To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Hermann Hesse, Demian:)
If you hate a person, you hate something in something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Mary Kay Ash: Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

E. W. Howe:
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do.

Walt Whitman:
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker:
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.


I was just pondering on what it means to have a friend, & If I Qualified?
I have a great many associates all over the globe but few friends.
FEEL FREE TO REPLY

summum bonum
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Reviews

[Nocturne]

So many of the lines in this piece are inspiring. I did wonder, though, as I was reading down it, is this your story? (And forgive me for the question if it is; the changes in formatting and the highlighting threw me off).

These are some lovely messages in here. I'm really not certain if I should give a critical review (or if even if one is called for). Tell me if that's something you're interested in, okay?

And thank you sincerely for sharing this.

Cheers for the read!
Naiya