A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just 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 a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
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...that is a friend who cares.
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. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
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.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Your friend is your needs answered.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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