## Quote #1 “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” ―C.S. Lewis ## Quote #2 “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” —Oscar Wilde ## Quote #3 “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.” —Dale Carnegie ## Quote #4 “For those who live in the world and desire to embrace true virtue it is necessary to unite together in holy, sacred friendship. By this means they encourage, assist, and lead one another to perform good things. Men walking on level ground do not have to lend one another a hand, while those who are on a rugged, slippery road hold on to one another in order to walk more safely.” —St. Francis de Sales ## Quote #5 “In this world two things are essential: life and friendship. Both should be highly prized and we must not undervalue them. Life and friendship are nature’s gifts. God created us that we might exist and live: this is life. But if we are not to remain solitary, there must be friendship.” —St. Augustine ## Quote #6 “A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure. There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend, and no scales can measure his excellence.” —Sirach 6:14-15 ## Quote #7 “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.” —Ecclesiastes 4:9-1 ## Quote #8 “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” —John 15:13 (Jesus Christ) ## Quote #9 A friend is, as it were, a second self.” —Cicero ## Band of Brothers “Men—this has always happened in history—bind their lives together to accomplish a collective mission and destiny. Is the unique destiny of eternal happiness worthless to the men and women of today” —St. Josemaría Escrivá, Furrow #729, Founder of Opus Dei