A friend is one who knows you as
you are. Understands where you've been, accepts who you've become, and still
gently invites you to grow.
Remember that no time is ever
wasted that makes two people better friends.
Friends are Angels who lift us to
our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Friendship with oneself is
all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the
world. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
One's friends are that part of
the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
The glory of friendship is not
the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is
the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else
believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows
all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
The only way to have a friend is
to be one.
Friendship consists in forgetting
what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
What is a friend? A single soul
dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
Where there are friends, there is
wealth.
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
Peter
Slender at first, they quickly gather force,
growing in richness as they run their course; Once started, they do not turn
back again: Rivers, and years, and friendships with good men. Sanskrit
poem
Don't sacrifice your life to work and
ideals. The most important things in life are human relationships. I
found that out too late. Katherine Prichard
Friendship is a divine elixir that draws you
towards people an allows you to spread yourself further. -
Deborah Forster
A real friend will tell you when you have
spinach stuck in your teeth. :-)
I have learned that to have a good friend is
the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange or payment.
Frances Farmer
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle
A real friend is one who walks in when the
rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
Friendship improves happiness and abates
misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
It is one of the blessings of friends that you
can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
I always felt that the great high privilege,
relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine
Mansfield
Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe
with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts no measure words, but pour them
all out, as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand
will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath
of kindness, blow the rest away.
To know someone here or there with whom you
feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed - that
can make of this earth a garden. Johann von Goethe
A friend is a present which you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of
it's own mystery is not love but a net cast forth, and only the unprofitable is
caught... And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and
sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds it's morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran
True happiness consists not in the multitude
of friends, but in the worth and choice. - Ben Jonson
