Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Source
Unknown
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things
you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian
Proverb
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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the
reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then
burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should
all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert
Schweitzer
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort
to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish
Proverb
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
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes,
Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted
to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything
you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar
Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David
Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~Arnold Glasow
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately
without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William
Blake
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning
Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
~George Santayana
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~Donna Roberts
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry
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. ~Laurence J. Peter
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~Source Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~C.S. Lewis
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
~Source Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying
a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've
had. ~Source Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David
Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
~Source Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Source Unknown
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank
with them, and important to friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
The Neurotic's Notebook
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am,
she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's
good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving
thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or
in front of one. ~Source Unknown
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying
but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck,
Answer Without Ceasing
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though
passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will
be by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln
We are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential
chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you,
reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are
friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.
~Jeanette Winterson~
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our
souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing
whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to
gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our
hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Source Unknown
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one
enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Source Unknown
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their
help. ~Epicurus
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and
not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth.
And to my heart, you already are. ~Anonymous
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of
life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is
sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone
who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your
shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need
to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll
just be me. ~Source Unknown
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Source
Unknown
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
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your
head. ~Source Unknown
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship
was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing
it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to
hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends
that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted
by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid
with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for
each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
~Samuel Pepys
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit
to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them. ~Francesco Guicciardini
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of
loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Source Unknown
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor
of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod;
my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little
lapses. ~David Storey
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone -
but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship:
it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect
but are always perfect for you. ~Source Unknown
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman
In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think
aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal,
that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy,
and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the
simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson