“Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.”
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friendship
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“Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.”
“The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.”
“Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
“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.”
“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.”
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”