“I could do without many things with no hardship – you are not one of them.”
~Ashleigh Brilliant
“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
“We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.”
~Frank A. Clark
“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.”
~Mark Twain
“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.”
~Charles
R. Swindoll
“Can I keep you?”
~from Casper the Friendly Ghost
“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
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
~Robert Brault
“Talk not of wasted affection, affection was never wasted.”
~Longfellow
“A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.”
~Wilma Askinas
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
~Father Jerome Cummings
“You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
~L.J. Peter
“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely…No good friends, No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build houses in your heart.”
~Stephen King
“It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.”
~Marlene Dietrich
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.”
~Frank Crane
“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 prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
~Octavia Butler
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.’
~D.T. Gentry
“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.”
~Kahlil Gibran
“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
~A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or touched – they are felt by the human heart.”
~Hellen Keller
“Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.”
~Thoreau
“The greatest happiness in life it the conviction that we are loved – loved for, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
~Victor Hugo
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
~Mencius
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us, That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”
~Emily Kimborough
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
~Henri Nouwen
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
~Virginia Woolf
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
~Anais Nin
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for a while, and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
“A friend is a person with whom you are to be yourself.”
~Frank Crane
“Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”
~H.D. Thoreau
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
~George Santayana
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”
~Walt Whitman
“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