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

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

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You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box. — Duchess Meghan

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that. — Ava DuVernay

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