The bond that links your true family is not one of blood. Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
A friendship can whether most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phonecalls and small, silly presents every so often. . .just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
It's not good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing to do is face it.
W. S. Bryant
And we find at the end of a perfect day, the soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. The heart withers if it doesn't answer another heart.
Pearl Buck
Our friend, we give you our lives, for it is you who has redeemed them for us. We give you our trust, for that is the least of what you have earned. We give you our eternal friendship, for you have been a true friend to us when we needed a friend most. We give you our love, for love is the font from which friendship and trust and even life itself flows. . . Last of all, we give you our home. It is your home now, because home is the place where love and trust and friendship and life wait for you. Come in fear or come in joy, come in triumph or come in direst extremity; know you can return to your home and you will find us waiting to embrace you in full welcome.
Jon Haley to Marchey - "Silver Hands" Stephen L. Burns
True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they're never dead in your heart.
Philip Chard
I can trust my friends. . . These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher
I found that success in building and sustaining friendships required that I lead with the heart and manage my attitude and emotions along the way. This demanded the courage to be heart vulnerable and overcome fears that if I addressed a glitch I would lose something. I learned the hard way that if I didn't address the glitches, I would lose the very thing I feared losing most. It took strength to realize that the questions that nurture long-term relationships are qualities of the heart. . . And it took self-security to actualize these qualities.
Doc Childre "Tools for Emotional Management"
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together. Certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we beleive in ourselves, we can risk curiousity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings
You do not know how much you much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed of so much odds and ends. . . to find a friend who has these qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -- without these friendships -- life, what couchemar(nightmare).
T. S. Eliot
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him
Emerson
It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripedes
Take us for example. . . why should we have met? How did it happen? It can only be something in our particular inclinations made us come closer and closer across the distance that separtated us, the way two rivers flow together.
Flaubert
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you or know your own worth.
Kahlil Gibran
One is taught be experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for who you are.
Gail Godwin
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
P. T. Gentry
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed, that can make life a garden.
Goethe
There's not a word yet for old friends who just met.
Gonzo
My few close friends are precious to me. We seem to help center each other as our lives travel paralell paths.
Robyn Haksima
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of lonliness.
Dag Hammerskjold
Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.
Barbara Holland
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Jung
Friends are God's apology for relatives.
Hugh Kingsmill
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks with you in the shadows.
Heather Kowalski
Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, "What! you too? I thought I was the only one."
C. S. Lewis
It's no good thing trying to keep up old freindships. It's painfull for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. S. Maugham
Words were never intended to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
Eddie Meyers
When you choose your friends, you choose the path of your life.
Thomas S. Monson
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Thomas Moore
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Morris
Most real relationships are involuntary.
Iris Murdoch
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
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.
Anias Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anias Nin
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 much advice, solutions, cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle, tender hand. the friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlesness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Could we but see where and when we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-bye.
Ouida
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
We keep passing through little moments of other people's lives.
Robert M. Persig
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks like yours does is something close to a blessed event.
Robert Persig
Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendships.
Picard (TNG)
You can never forget the people who change your life. You become a different person, and everything you do is slightly altered by what they taught you.
Ryanna Porter
Interests change. Friendship based on mutual interests is doomed. Real friendship is an unshakeable faith is what was one truly seen, no matter how recently or long ago.
Hugh Prather
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
Vi Putman
As I look back on all that's happened, growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me, there are times when we dreamed together. When we laughed and cried together. as I look back on those days I realize how much I truly miss you, and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever . . . and whatever the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hioping that you'll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for whatever the future may hold.
C. L. Purdy
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
Jean Renoir
If I could give you one gift my friend, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you, so you would know how very special you are.
Helen Steiner Rice
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
Antoine Riveroe
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
There's something beautiful in finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
Oliver Schreiner
One of the most beautiful qualities of friendship is to understand and be understood.
Seneca
Cold words will break a fine heart as winter's first frost does a crystal vase. A false friend is like the shadow on a sundial which appears in very fine weather, but vanishes at the approach of a cloud.
Vikon Seth "A Suitable Boy"
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
Mary Shelly
Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk to you again.
Simon & Garfunkel
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
St. Exupery
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome
Friends. . . They cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Thoreau
To mean something to somebody is one of the greatest satisfactions in life.
Valdivar
Friends should be chosen carefully, because loving them will change our hearts and souls.
Jane Wakken
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
The best friendships come in unexpected packages.
Janet L. Weaver
Friends splash our world with sunny color and set our hearts to flight.
Janet L. Weaver
For all the times I never said the things I should have, I thank you for all the times you understood.
Flavia Weedn
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
I have lost friends, some by death. . . others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Here in the midst of a lonely abyss, a single joy I find. . . your prescence on my mind.
And the best thing you've done for me is to help me take my life less seriously. . . it's only life after all.
Your friends will stretch your vision. . . ,or choke your dreams.
It's ok to need each other. That's what makes us strong. That's what makes us human.
It takes a lot of understanding, time, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. Friends are the angels of life. You never lose by loving. . . you always lose by holding back.
And when there seems like there is no one left to run to in this empty world of ours, you can come to me and I'll be your shooting star. You can tell me your dreams. I can't promise that I can make them come true. But I will be there to pick up the pieces of your broken heart if your dreams happen to fall through.
Once in a while you meet someone and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other. . . you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed so openly, and right away, you know your friendship is truly meant to be.
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand. . . but touches your heart.
A friend will weigh your faults without putting a thumb on the scales.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives a while, leave footprints on our heats, and we are never ever the same.
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