Friendship

I believe that for any relationship to last it must first begin with friendship. Here are a few quotes I have found that I think explain friendship better than I can ...

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

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.
Anais Nin

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

Please feel free to add your own quote or thought on friendship.
I thank all of you for being my friends on CS.