Friendship Quotes - Page 35

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

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.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

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.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.